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James G. Lennox: Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits?
James G. Lennox: Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits?
ABSTRACT In the decades following the forging of the so-called Neo-Darwinian Synthesis in the 1940s, a number of its philosophical defenders created a myth about what Charles Darwin was up against, a viewpoint called “typological essentialism” often attributed to Aristotle. In this paper I first sketch the history of how this myth was created. I […]