文档介绍：DARWIN
and Design
MICHAEL RUSE
DARWIN
and Design
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DOES EVOLUTION
HAVE A PURPOSE?
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
AND LONDON, ENGLAND
Copyright © 2003 by the President
and Fellows of Harvard College
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Title page: René Magritte, Le Printemps, 1965;
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ruse, Michael.
Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? /
Michael Ruse.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 0-674-01023-X (alk. paper)
1. Evolution (Biology)—Philosophy. 2. Teleology.
I. Title.
R867 2003
—dc21 2002038819
Designed by Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt
For my wife, Lizzie
C ontents
Preface ix
Introduction 1
1 Two Thousand Years of Design 9
2 Paley and Kant Fight Back 31
3 Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 51
4 A Plurality of Problems 69
5 Charles Darwin 89
6 A Subject Too Profound 107
7 Darwinian against Darwinian 129
8 The Century of Evolutionism 151
9 Adaptation in Action 171
10 Theory and Test 195
11 Formalism Redux 223
12 From Function to Design 249
13 Design as Metaphor 271
14 Natural Theology Evolves 291
15 Turning Back the Clock 313
Sources and Suggested Reading 339
Illustration Credits 358
Acknowledgments 359
Index 361
Preface
Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? is the third volume in
what has now stretched to a trilogy, beginning with Monad to Man: The
Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology and continuing with Mystery of
Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? My aim through these three
volumes has been to bring our understanding from several disciplines—
philosophy, history, and religion—to answer questions about the nature
of science, and con