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Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation
by Richard H. Robbins Mark Nathan CohenFor courses in evolution, creationism or as a supplemental item in biology and/or biological anthropology courses.Darwin and the Bible helps readers to understand the nature, history and passions behind the debate over scientific and religious versions of creation and human origins. Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation is about the history and nature of the disputes over human origins that arose with the publication of Charles Darwin’s book, Origin of Species in 1859. The readings in the text provide the, historical, theological, social and political backgrounds of the debate. Rather than trying to demonstrate the truth of Darwinian evolution, this book seeks to help the reader understand why the debate over Darwin and the Bible remains as contentious as ever. The book seeks to examine why Darwin’s theory of evolution appears threatening to some people, and, likewise, to help understand why some scientists often react with such emotion to challenges to their views. The contributors include biological scientists, social scientists, social historians, and proponents of the importance of God, faith, and religion in peoples lives.
Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation
by Richard H. Robbins Mark Nathan CohenFor courses in evolution, creationism or as a supplemental item in biology and/or biological anthropology courses.Darwin and the Bible helps readers to understand the nature, history and passions behind the debate over scientific and religious versions of creation and human origins. Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation is about the history and nature of the disputes over human origins that arose with the publication of Charles Darwin’s book, Origin of Species in 1859. The readings in the text provide the, historical, theological, social and political backgrounds of the debate. Rather than trying to demonstrate the truth of Darwinian evolution, this book seeks to help the reader understand why the debate over Darwin and the Bible remains as contentious as ever. The book seeks to examine why Darwin’s theory of evolution appears threatening to some people, and, likewise, to help understand why some scientists often react with such emotion to challenges to their views. The contributors include biological scientists, social scientists, social historians, and proponents of the importance of God, faith, and religion in peoples lives.
Darwin, Marx and Freud: Their Influence on Moral Theory (The Hastings Center Series in Ethics)
by BruceJennings Arthur L. Caplanhope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience. And this cannot be done indeed, it is difficult to even make sense of an attempt to do it-without first settling our accounts with Darwin, Marx, and Freud. The legacy of these three thinkers continues to haunt us in other ways as well. Whatever their substantive philosophical differences in other respects, Darwin, Marx, and Freud shared a common, overriding intellectual orientation: they taught us to see human things in historical, developmental terms. Phil osophically, questions of being were displaced in their works by questions of becoming. Methodologically, genesis replaced teleological and essentialist considerations in the explanatory logic of their theories. Darwin, Marx, and Freud were, above all, theorists of conflict, dynamism, and change. They em phasized the fragility of order, and their abiding concern was always to discover and to explicate the myriad ways in which order grows out of disorder. For these reasons their theories constantly confront and challenge the cardinal tenet of our modern secular faith: the notion of progress. To be sure, their emphasis on conflict and the flux of change within the flow of time was not unprecedented; its origins in Western thought can be traced back at least as far as Heraclitus.
Darwinian Archaeologies (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
by Herbert Donald Graham MaschnerJust over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage. E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, spelt out and developed the implications of ideas that had been quietly revolutionizing biology for some time. Most controversial of all, needless to say, was the suggestion that such ideas had implications for human behavior in general and social behavior in particular. Nowhere was the outcry greater than in the field of anthropology, for anthropologists saw themselves as the witnesses and defenders of human di versity and plasticity in the face of what they regarded as a biological determin ism supporting a right-wing racist and sexist political agenda. Indeed, how could a discipline inheriting the social and cultural determinisms of Boas, Whorf, and Durkheim do anything else? Life for those who ventured to chal lenge this orthodoxy was not always easy. In the mid-l990s such views are still widely held and these two strands of anthropology have tended to go their own way, happily not talking to one another. Nevertheless, in the intervening years Darwinian ideas have gradually begun to encroach on the cultural landscape in variety of ways, and topics that had not been linked together since the mid-19th century have once again come to be seen as connected. Modern genetics turns out to be of great sig nificance in understanding the history of humanity.
Darwinism and Modern Socialism (Routledge Revivals)
by F.W. HeadleyAn adamant fan of Darwin, F.W. Headley attempts to argue the difficulties of believing in Socialism and Darwinism simultaneously and highlights issues which could prevent Socialism from being put into practice. Originally published in 1909, this study uses examples of communities in countries such as England and India to illustrate Headley’s key belief that societies only function well if they do not interfere with the fight for existence and natural selection. This title will be of interest to students of Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology.
Darwinism and Modern Socialism (Routledge Revivals)
by F.W. HeadleyAn adamant fan of Darwin, F.W. Headley attempts to argue the difficulties of believing in Socialism and Darwinism simultaneously and highlights issues which could prevent Socialism from being put into practice. Originally published in 1909, this study uses examples of communities in countries such as England and India to illustrate Headley’s key belief that societies only function well if they do not interfere with the fight for existence and natural selection. This title will be of interest to students of Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology.
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (History and Philosophy of Biology)
by John P Jackson David J. DepewDarwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms. The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By working across disciplinary lines, the book’s focal figures--the anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn--found increasingly persuasive ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social constructionist views of race by grounding Boas’s racially egalitarian, culturally relativistic, and democratically pluralistic ethic in a distinctive version of the genetic theory of natural selection. Collaborators in making and defending this argument included Ashley Montagu, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics interested in subjects including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Sociology of Race, History of Biology and Anthropology, and Rhetoric of Science.
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (History and Philosophy of Biology)
by John P Jackson David J. DepewDarwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms. The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By working across disciplinary lines, the book’s focal figures--the anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn--found increasingly persuasive ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social constructionist views of race by grounding Boas’s racially egalitarian, culturally relativistic, and democratically pluralistic ethic in a distinctive version of the genetic theory of natural selection. Collaborators in making and defending this argument included Ashley Montagu, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics interested in subjects including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Sociology of Race, History of Biology and Anthropology, and Rhetoric of Science.
Darwinism in the Press: the Evolution of An Idea (Routledge Communication Series)
by Edward CaudillNumerous books and articles have outlined Darwin's impact on American scientists, philosophers, businessmen, and clergy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Few, however, have undertaken a study of Darwinism in the form in which it was presented to most Americans -- popular newspapers and magazines. The main concern of this book is to identify how the press is treated as a part of our culture - - pointing to its ability to shape and to be shaped by the forces that act on the rest of society and its ability to be critical in the interpretation of ideas for "the masses."
Darwinism in the Press: the Evolution of An Idea (Routledge Communication Series)
by Edward CaudillNumerous books and articles have outlined Darwin's impact on American scientists, philosophers, businessmen, and clergy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Few, however, have undertaken a study of Darwinism in the form in which it was presented to most Americans -- popular newspapers and magazines. The main concern of this book is to identify how the press is treated as a part of our culture - - pointing to its ability to shape and to be shaped by the forces that act on the rest of society and its ability to be critical in the interpretation of ideas for "the masses."
Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Thorbjørn KnudsenOf paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen reveal how the British naturalist’s core concepts apply to a wide range of phenomena, including business practices, legal systems, technology, and even science itself. They also critique some prominent objections to applying Darwin to social science, arguing that ultimately Darwinism functions as a general theoretical framework for stimulating further inquiry. Social scientists who adopt a Darwinian approach, they contend, can then use it to frame and help develop new explanatory theories and predictive models. This truly pathbreaking workat long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.
Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Thorbjørn KnudsenOf paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen reveal how the British naturalist’s core concepts apply to a wide range of phenomena, including business practices, legal systems, technology, and even science itself. They also critique some prominent objections to applying Darwin to social science, arguing that ultimately Darwinism functions as a general theoretical framework for stimulating further inquiry. Social scientists who adopt a Darwinian approach, they contend, can then use it to frame and help develop new explanatory theories and predictive models. This truly pathbreaking workat long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.
Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Thorbjørn KnudsenOf paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen reveal how the British naturalist’s core concepts apply to a wide range of phenomena, including business practices, legal systems, technology, and even science itself. They also critique some prominent objections to applying Darwin to social science, arguing that ultimately Darwinism functions as a general theoretical framework for stimulating further inquiry. Social scientists who adopt a Darwinian approach, they contend, can then use it to frame and help develop new explanatory theories and predictive models. This truly pathbreaking workat long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.
Darwin's Roadmap to the Curriculum: Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education
by David Sloan Wilson, Glenn Geher, Hadassah Mativetsky and Andrew C. GallupThere is a paradox when it comes to Darwinian ideas within the academy. On one hand, Darwin's theories have famously changed the foundational ideas related to the origins of life, shaping entire disciplines in the biological sciences. On the other hand, people in educated societies across the globe today are famously misinformed and uneducated about Darwinian principles and ideas. Applications of evolutionary theory outside the traditional areas of biology have been slow to progress, and scholars doing such work regularly run into all kinds of political backlash. However, a slow but steady push to advance the teaching of evolution across academic disciplines has been under way for more than a decade. This book serves to integrate the vast literature in the interdisciplinary field of Evolutionary Studies (EvoS), providing clear examples of how evolutionary concepts relate to all facets of life. Further, this book provides chapters dedicated to the processes associated with an EvoS education, including examples of how an interdisciplinary approach to evolutionary theory has been implemented successfully at various colleges, universities, and degree programs. This book also offers chapters outlining a variety of applications to an evolution education, including improved sustainable development, medical practices, and creative and critical thinking skills. Exploring controversies surrounding evolution education, this volume provides a roadmap to asking and answering Darwinian questions across all areas of intellectual inquiry.
Darwin's Roadmap to the Curriculum: Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education
There is a paradox when it comes to Darwinian ideas within the academy. On one hand, Darwin's theories have famously changed the foundational ideas related to the origins of life, shaping entire disciplines in the biological sciences. On the other hand, people in educated societies across the globe today are famously misinformed and uneducated about Darwinian principles and ideas. Applications of evolutionary theory outside the traditional areas of biology have been slow to progress, and scholars doing such work regularly run into all kinds of political backlash. However, a slow but steady push to advance the teaching of evolution across academic disciplines has been under way for more than a decade. This book serves to integrate the vast literature in the interdisciplinary field of Evolutionary Studies (EvoS), providing clear examples of how evolutionary concepts relate to all facets of life. Further, this book provides chapters dedicated to the processes associated with an EvoS education, including examples of how an interdisciplinary approach to evolutionary theory has been implemented successfully at various colleges, universities, and degree programs. This book also offers chapters outlining a variety of applications to an evolution education, including improved sustainable development, medical practices, and creative and critical thinking skills. Exploring controversies surrounding evolution education, this volume provides a roadmap to asking and answering Darwinian questions across all areas of intellectual inquiry.
Das 1 x 1 der Präsentation: Für Schule, Studium und Beruf
by Karl-Christof RenzDieses Buch zeigt auf unterhaltsame Weise auch dem bisher Unerfahrenen, wie eine Präsentation pragmatisch vorbereitet und mit medialer Unterstützung durchgeführt werden kann. Behandelt werden graphische Gestaltung, Lern- und Arbeitstechniken sowie Gesprächsführung und Rhetorik. Berücksichtigt werden dabei Aspekte der Disziplinen Arbeitswissenschaft und Psychologie. Aber auch Kenntnisse wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, z.B. Quellensuche, Quellenbewertung und Zitieren, sowie statistische Grundkenntnisse gehören zu einer Präsentation, insbesondere in wissenschaftlichen Bereichen. Die Fähigkeit, professionell zu präsentieren, ist nicht nur in der Praxis, sondern auch in der Wissenschaft grundlegend. Der Autor ist überzeugt: Mit dem richtigen Handwerkszeug kann jeder lernen zu präsentieren – und das kann sogar Spaß machen. Die dritte Auflage wurde überarbeitet und erweitert. Neu hinzugekommen sind Hinweise, was bei Online-Veranstaltungen und virtueller Lehre zu berücksichtigen ist. Zudem wurden neuere Präsentationsmedien wie Visualizer und Smartboard aufgenommen.
Das Afrika-Lexikon: Ein Kontinent in 1.000 Stichwörtern. Sonderausgabe
Afrika von A-Z . Ausgewiesene Spezialisten aus Deutschland, Europa und Afrika informieren knapp und aktuell über Afrika - seine Geographie und Geschichte, Politik und Wirtschaft, Länder, Gesellschaften und Kulturen, Sprachen und Literaturen, Kunst und Musik, Religionen und Philosophie. Zum ersten Mal erscheint in deutscher Sprache ein Lexikon des afrikanischen Kontinents.
Das Afrika-Lexikon: Ein Kontinent in 1000 Stichwörtern
Afrika von A-Z. Im ersten umfassenden Afrika-Lexikon in deutscher Sprache informieren ausgewiesene Spezialisten aus Deutschland, Europa und Afrika knapp und aktuell über Afrikas Geografie und Geschichte, Politik und Wirtschaft, Länder, Gesellschaften und Kulturen, Sprachen und Literatur, Kunst und Musik, Religionen und Philosophie. Zum ersten Mal erscheint in deutscher Sprache ein Lexikon des afrikanischen Kontinents!
Das Akademische Kunstmuseum der Universität Bonn (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften #68)
by Wolfgang Ehrhardt
Das alte Wunderland der Pyramiden: Geographische, geschichtliche und kulturhistorische Bilder aus der Vorzeit, der Periode der Blüthe sowie des Verfalls des alten Aegyptens
by Karl Oppel
Das Alter - Impulse für die bessere Hälfte
by Wolfgang BlohmVorurteile und Mythen des Alters hinterfragt: Der Autor Dr. Wolfgang Blohm lädt Sie ein, die Lebensphase des Altwerdens neu zu entdecken. Was erleben Sie bei der Lektüre? Statt Warten auf den Tod, Depression und Inkontinenz finden sich neue Bewertungen, Denkimpulse und immer auch ein Augenzwinkern. Wer am Älterwerden verzweifelt oder jedes graue Haar einzeln zählt, sollte “Das Alter – Impulse für die bessere Hälfte“ mit Neugierde lesen. Daneben empfiehlt sich die Lektüre für alle, die schon einmal einen Blick über den Zaun der Zukunft werfen möchten. Denn alt werden möchte fast jeder. Dieses Buch öffnet den Blick für viele neue Perspektiven auf die wichtigen lebensnahen Bereiche. Veränderungen lassen sich gestalten, Freiräume im Leben, im Lieben und im Wohnen sehr bekömmlich nutzen. Auch vermeintliche Tabus wie Sexualität, Verjüngungsmedizin oder das Lebensende können dabei ihre Scheu verlieren. Mehr als dreißig Jahre ärztliche und psychotherapeutische Erfahrung in der Praxis, in der eigenen Klinik und als mehrfacher Buchautor bringt Dr. med. Blohm neben seinem Lebensalter in dieses Buch mit ein
Das Amorphe im Medialen: Zur politischen Fernsehästhetik im italienischen Sendeformat »Blob« (Film)
by Cecilia ValentiSpätestens seit Anfang der 2000er Jahre boomen Studien zu Qualitätsserien - diese verbleiben jedoch meist auf der inhaltlichen Ebene. Medienphilosophische Fragen werden ausgeklammert, sodass eine Theorie des Fernsehens bis heute Desiderat bleibt. Cecilia Valenti leistet an dieser Stelle einen Beitrag zum Denken des Fernsehens, indem sie sich auf eines der eigenartigsten Formate der TV-Geschichte konzentriert: die italienische Sendung Blob. Sie arbeitet heraus, wie sich das Amorphe im Titel des Formats mit einer televisuellen Ästhetik verknüpft, die aus filmischer Montage politisches Potential schöpft und dabei zeigt, dass Medien erst in der Relation mit anderen Medien erscheinen.
Das Amt Altenburg im 15. Jahrhundert: Zur Praxis der Kursächsischen Lokalverwaltung im Mittelalter
by Brigitte Streich
Das andere Denken: Hermeneutische Perspektiven einer erziehungswissenschaftlichen Autobiographieforschung
by Thomas Hartge
Das Andere Erforschen: Empirische Impulse aus Reform- und Alternativschulen (Schule und Gesellschaft #32)
by Heiner Ullrich Till-Sebastian Idel Katharina KunzeDas Buch stellt neuere empirische Studien zur Schulkultur an Reform- und Alternativschulen vor. Die Gegenstandsbereiche der einzelnen Studien reichen von Schüler- über Lehrerstudien bis hin zur ethnografischen Betrachtung des Unterrichts und der Gleichaltrigenkultur an Reform- und Alternativschulen.