Reviews for Darwin

The average rating for Darwin based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-26 00:00:00 Kevin Colligan the impact of Darwin and his work on philosophy is dealt with extensively and thoroughly. One point of interest and importance is that directed input to thinking will produce similar output. A very ancient example is religion. If you are reared in an environment which regularly supports Shinto you are likely to have a shinto bent. If you are reared among Hebrews one can imagine your later thinking, as with Catholicism, Hinduism, etc. Another example would be language. If your household and all people you know speak German what will you speak? More recently, input lends itself to self selection more handily than before computers made it easy to gear your homepage to bring in right or left leaning input. . . . the fact that a theory is able to successfully explain diverse phenomena is, Darwin thinks, strongly indicative of the theory's truth. This mode of explanation has become known a Inference to the Best Explanation -- IBE p. 87 It is baffling why an intelligent God should choose to build the horse, the mole and the bat on the same anatomical plan when their environments make such different demands on them. p. 111 the most we could conclude from this {set of facts] is that w don't know how to explain it. This would hardly show all by itself that an intelligent agent probably is responsible. p. 114 . . . basic emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, , surprise, and disgust. p. 142 I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. . . p. 191 . . . this view has it that we can control the inputs people receive, and thereby the outputs they produce. . . . p. 223 !!!!!!!! Thus, evolutionary psychology predicts, explains and vindicates what everybody already knows and only a fool would deny about he differences between what men and women want. p. 228

Review # 2 was written on 2011-04-15 00:00:00 Lamar Taylor 150411: useful exploration of philosophy and impact of essential themes of darwin: evolution by natural selection of populations. of species transforming into entirely new species. of how this is scientifically rigorous, believable, truthful, from the vast compilations of gathered species. this is not dogma. surprises me how darwin continues to be relevant, inspiring, useful in a wide range of fields of science. does not avoid controversy about relevance of id. does not neglect ways in which his theories are in error, how some arguments can be easily born of the varied political perspectives evolution spawns. does not make the man a saint. but overall, very concise understanding of his generous thoughts, on the role of environment, on the question of altruism, on the role of sex as well as resource limitations, on spurring change. how ultimately humans must learn to make moral claims through the niche we intend to inhabit, and leave for our descendants. evolutionary thought is too often harnessed to contemporary structure of environment, but there is also something of a tree of life that can prune errors. evolutionary thought is not the first, or the final, way to decide how to be human. but it is an effective and useful aid...