COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Thomas Robert Malthus, George Romanes, Intelligent Design
28 Nov 2012
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It also sparked off many approaches to animal. Although substance dualism came under widespread attach (since arguments for it were largely a priori) the other half of descarte s dualism proposed: matter as machine. Mechanization of the european worldview was consolidated by. Newton s law of motion, which were algorithmic (=solvable by step- by-step procedures) The mechanical spirit was alive and well in chemistry and physiology, especially in the 19th c, and especially in germany. Darwin was the father of ecology: evolution. However, in bio mechanism made few inroads. could not be replaces and were not eliminated. Darwin s theory of natural selection gave an account of the origin of species and provided and framework for a theory of the evolution of the human mind minds/intelligence. A biographical sketch of an infant (1840, published in 1877) darwin kept a diary of his infant son, recording his development-published in. The decent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1871)
