Tag: "Darwin & evolution"

The Facts of Life

Tim Wilkinson uses evolution to sort out his facts from his ‘mere theories’.
[Issue 84: May/June 2011: Articles]

What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Massimo Pigliucci tells us what Darwin got right.
[Issue 81: October/November 2010: Books]

On Xenophobia

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci.
[Issue 80: August/September 2010: Science]

The Dragon: Memes, Culture and Evolution

In a follow-up to last issue’s focus on Darwin, we have two articles looking at memes, supposed ‘units of cultural transmission’. First, Daria Sugorakova explores the concept of memes by pondering how the idea of dragons evolved.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Articles]

God or Nature?

by Grant Bartley
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Editorial]

Social Spencerism

Tim Delaney relates how Herbert Spencer, inventor of the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, originally applied evolutionary thinking to human society and culture.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

Nature Red in Tooth and Claw

Sherrie Lyons revisits Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s most energetic defender and the coiner of the word ‘agnostic’.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

Dewey and Darwin

Tim Madigan on how Darwin influenced the Pragmatist.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Food for Thought]

Purpose, Meaning & Darwinism

Mary Midgley meditates on mind and meaning among the mutations.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

News: January/February 2009

International Darwin Day celebrations • Deaths of outstanding philosophers and tortoises • Cleanliness and Godliness — News reports by Sue Roberts
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: News]