Book contents
- Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
- Additional material
- Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Analogy in Classical Greece
- Chapter 2 Analogy in the Background to the Origin
- Chapter 3 Darwin’s Analogical Theorising before the Origin
- Chapter 4 The ‘One Long Argument’ of the Origin
- Chapter 5 An Analysis of Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
- Chapter 6 Darwin’s Use of Metaphor in the Origin
- Chapter 7 Rebuttals of the Revisionists
- Chapter 8 Wider Issues Concerning Darwinian Science
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2021
- Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
- Additional material
- Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Analogy in Classical Greece
- Chapter 2 Analogy in the Background to the Origin
- Chapter 3 Darwin’s Analogical Theorising before the Origin
- Chapter 4 The ‘One Long Argument’ of the Origin
- Chapter 5 An Analysis of Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
- Chapter 6 Darwin’s Use of Metaphor in the Origin
- Chapter 7 Rebuttals of the Revisionists
- Chapter 8 Wider Issues Concerning Darwinian Science
- References
- Index
Summary
Central to this book is a trio of chapters (4, 5 and 6) on Darwin’s Origin of Species in its first edition of 1859. Darwin called his book 'one long argument'. These three chapters clarify how this long argument is conducted; how Darwin’s analogical reasonings about natural and artificial selection support the argument; and how his various metaphors are grounded in those reasonings. The conclusions from these chapters support the claims in our chapters 1 to 3 about the decisive antecedents, from ancient times on, for Darwin’s conception of analogical reasoning and what it can do for his one long argument. Equally these conclusions support the claims made in our chapters 7and 8 as to how that reasoning should be analysed and evaluated by philosophers, biologists and historians today. Our writing combines throughout narratives that are often not overtly normative with judgements that often are so.
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- Darwin's Argument by AnalogyFrom Artificial to Natural Selection, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021