Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? /

Ruse, Michael.

Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / Michael Ruse. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003. - x, 371 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-357) and index.

Two thousand years of design -- Paley and Kant fight back -- Sowing the seeds of evolution -- A plurality of problems -- Charles Darwin -- A subject too profound -- Darwinian against Darwinian -- The century of evolutionism -- Adaptation in action -- Theory and test -- Formalism redux -- From function to design -- Design as metaphor -- Natural theology evolves -- Turning back the clock.

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Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Teleology.
Evolution.
Philosophy.

QH360.5 / R867 2003