Philosophy and the Darwinian Legacy

by Suzanne Cunningham

Has exclusion of Darwin's views on evolution distorted 20c philosophy? Cunningham suggests a reappraisal.

Two of the dominant traditions in twentieth-century philosophy, analytic philosophy (founded by G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell) and phenomenology (founded by Edmund Husserl), explicitly excluded Charles Darwin's account of evolution, not because they saw it as mistaken, but because they saw it as irrelevant. These two traditions set the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878822616
• ISBN13: 9781878822611
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"