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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Darwinism"”.
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Social Darwinism and British imperialism, 1870-1900
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Digital Darwinism: Temporal Myopia and the Transformation of Institutional Logics
… prevent the risk of what amounts to Digital Darwinism, organisations must consciously address this everyday phenomenon of temporal myopia; to do so requires long-ranging contextual hindsight to gain a needed perspective for strategic foresight. Moreover, this challenge demands the …
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The Word of Science: Popularising Darwinism in Romania, 1859-1918
… theory in Romania from 1859 to 1918. Placing Darwinism in the Romanian context is important in several ways, as not only gives a picture of the interconnectedness between the political and the scientific construction of knowledge, but also reveals how cultural hegemony was formed in the …
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Presbyterian Attitudes Toward Science and the Coming of Darwinism in America, 1859 to 1929
The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. served as a weathervane for the American Protestant reaction to developments in science following the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species. The reaction to Darwin, of course, was varied and historians continue to examine the effects of the Darwinian Re
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College Football in Turmoil: How Violence, Virility and Social Darwinism Defined College Football, 1880-1915
This study investigates the influence of the reform movement within the United States on college football between 1880 and 1915. In response to industrialization and urbanization, reform advocates used sports and athletics to develop America’s youth. Concern mounted from critics that young boys …
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Evolution And Ethics
… to do? Evolutionary ethicists typically adopt Darwinism as a suitable explanation for evolution, and on that basis draw conclusions about moral epistemology. However, if Darwinism is to be offered as a premise from which conclusions about moral epistemology are drawn, in order to assess such …
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Embryology and the evolutionary synthesis: Waddington, development and genetics
… is descnbed as the core of modern synthetic neo-Darwinism as it emerged in 1930s mathematical population genetics. As selectionism strengthened within synthetic neo-Darwinism, embryological development was excluded from its traditional causal role in adaptive evolution within the "old synthesis" …
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The Proposal for Darwinian Morality Offered by Michael Ruse: A Critical Assessment
… fundamental problem that genuine altruism is for Darwinism. A charge is offered that Darwinism only supports pseudo-altruism and cannot successfully justify the common practice of authentic altruism. Chapter 5 concludes the dissertation and offers an argument that the nature of God serves as a far …
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An Argument from Sublime Literature: How Language, Beauty, and Literature Point Toward the Existence of God
… creation of sublime literature precisely where Darwinism falls apart. The argument unfolds in two stages. The first provides a critique of the Darwinian explanation for literature. The goal is to level the playing field, push back against the stranglehold evolutionists have held on the subject, …
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From mazes to labyrinths: an evolutionary window for public administration: a new ontology
… this century. What is called the Ontology of Neo-Darwinism has created a consciousness among public administrators which limits what they feel they can do and what they can talk about to the boundaries of that consciousness. In particular, the consciousness has come to appear like a state which …
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The Victoria Institute 1865-1932: A Case Study in the Relationship between Science and Religion
… of definitions, particularly ‘evolution’ and ‘Darwinism’, and demonstrates how Darwinism served as a synecdoche for broader cultural trends. Chapter Five examines the Victoria Institute’s fascination with geology and its relationship to scientific epistemology. Chapter Six turns to the Victoria …
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The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway
… of the theoretical and cultural inheritance of Darwinism in the fields of “adaptation studies,” “transmedia studies,” and “biocultural studies,” this dissertation assesses how evolution and its offshoots have been put to work by theorists and artists who have created, studied, and consumed works …
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Tolstoy and Zola: Trains and Missed Connections
… relates to Tolstoy's and Zola's depictions of Darwinism in their works. Despite their differences, both writers subscribed to a belief in the "fallacy of progress" and thought that technology was causing man, contrary to expectations, to regress. This dissertation explores the relationships …
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… Rome. It comes as no surprise that the study of Darwinism in this environment of change would deliver a number of interesting outcomes.
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Home from Away: Challenging Extinction Discourse through the Repatriation of Indigenous Beothuk Human Remains
… Canada, has persisted. This discourse of Social Darwinism (where extinction takes place within parts of the human species rather than extinction of the species) has largely been applied uncritically and unquestioningly to such peoples. Literature on “extinct” peoples like the Beothuk comes to be …
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Between Hull and a Hard Core: Varying Patterns in the Evolution of the Darwinian Research Tradition
Focusing on Darwinism, David Hull argues that the protean character of conceptual systems is explained by their nature as historical entities which evolve. If they evolve as biological species do, Hull argues, then they cannot have an "essence" — a set of tenets that all and only instances of the …
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson: a comparison of their moral philosophies
… can be seen in the reactions of both thinkers to Darwinism, the vitalism that both philosophers utilized to explain life's evolution, the distinction made by the two thinkers between men and great men, the developmental frame of reference applied by both men to their moral enquiries, and the …
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Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
… ideal. By the fin-de-siècle, the rise of social Darwinism led to theories of degeneracy, in which the insane were grouped with criminals and prostitutes as biologically deficient. The insane, through the lens of depictions of degeneracy, existed mainly in “scientific” studies and popular imagery. …
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
… influences, such as Romanticism and the rise of Darwinism. It demonstrates that conflicting doctrinal strains within Unitarianism, and emphases in Unitarianism differing from that of other prevailing influences within society, jointly contributed to the particular nature of her literary output. …
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Christianity at the Crossroads: William Louis Poteat and Liberal Religion in the Baptist South
… began by adapting Christianity to fit with Darwinism, which required a new theology of revelation. To make Christianity safe from modern skeptics, he embraced an alternative religious epistemology of religious experience that also created a safe distance from the traditional doctrinal …
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