Lecture 3 on 'what the Darwinian ‘[theory] has cleared up'. Lecture IV giving a 'summary of Darwinism' and a list of his fellow-workers, i.e. Alfred Russell Wallace, British naturalist, 1823-1913; Herbert Spencer, English evolutionary philosopher, 1820-1903; Ernst [Heinrich] Haeckel, German naturalist, 1834-1919; and Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1825-1895. Lecture V on 'Darwinism and its critics': i.e. Asa Gray, American botanist, 1810-1888; Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, 1817- 1865; Herbert Spencer and Theodor Eimer. Pages numbered 13-18. Manuscript.
Zonder titelReprinted from the January number of 'The Journal of Philosophical Studies'. Vol. i. No. 1. Printed.
Zonder titelThe pursuit of knowledge. Criticism of 'Vestiges' - the progress of man, (with a thought diagram), mentioning the theories of Weismann, Darwin, Oliphant, Fiske and Miss Buckly and stressing his belief in the importance of the reproductive factor. Commentary on disestablishment of the church. The Duke of Argyll's attack on natural selection: he is 'tolerably far gone in muddleheadedness'. Reference to Fothergill, Erasmus, [Jean Baptiste] Lamarck, Robert Chambers and Thomas Huxley.
Zonder titelWith reference to Universities and Colleges Exhibition.
Zonder titelWith reference to the publication of Patrick Geddes's papers after his death. Reference to James Slater and John Ross, and the possibility of some papers being at Montpellier.
Zonder titelHe is glad the Town and Gown problem has been solved; agrees to transfer his advance into investment in debentures.
Zonder titelReprinted from Popular Science Monthly.
Zonder titelIncludes draft of a review or article based on John Middleton Murray's God, Being an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology (1929). Manuscript.
Zonder titelNotes on defining and describing evolution. Manuscript.
Zonder titelManuscript, 8 pp. and typescript, 1 p.
Zonder titelWith bibliography. Typescript.
Zonder titelBest known for his three-volume collaboration with Bertrand Russell, ‘Principia Mathematica’ (1910, 1912, 1913), the British philosopher of logic and mathematics Alfred North Whitehead, 1861–1947, was the originator of ‘Process theory’ in philosophy. Significantly, for Geddes and Thomson, the theory rejects philosophies which value static notions of being and instead advances a dynamic notion of becoming that views the world as “a web of interrelated processes” over an independence of things. Manuscript and typescript.
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