Stephen G Alter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen G Alter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Alter |
| SIGNATURE | ALTER S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gordon College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Babylon to Christianity: William Foxwell Albright on Myth, Folklore, and Christian Origins
The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth‐century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to demonstrate empirically the Hebrew Bible's substantial historicity. Less well known is Albright's research on Christian backgrounds, which by contrast reflected modernist theology's scepticism about the gospel narratives' literal truth. Drawing ideas from the “Pan‐Babylonian” school of biblic…
William Dwight Whitney and the Social Dimension of Lexical Diffusion
The paper traces how the American linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) and his intellectual descendants anticipated, and in part influenced, modern-day discussions of 'lexical diffusion', the piecemeal spread of phonological changes both through an individual speaker's word-inventory and speaker-to-speaker through an entire community. Whitney regarded these two processes as inextricably linked; he also stressed comparison between different…
Curiously parallel”: Analogies of language and race in Darwin’s Descent of man. A reply to Gregory Radick
Darwin and the linguists: The coevolution of mind and language, Part 2. The language–thought relationship
Mandeville's Ship: Theistic Design and Philosophical History in Charles Darwin's Vision of Natural Selection
This essay examines the analogy of a savage observing a sailing ship found in the final chapter of Darwin's Origin of Species, an image that summed up his critique of British natural theology's "design" thesis. Its inspiration drawn from works by Mandeville and Hume, and Darwin's experience on the Beagle voyage, the ship illustration shows how Darwin conceived of natural selection's relationship to theistic design in terms of a historical conscio…
Darwin and the linguists: The coevolution of mind and language, Part 1. Problematic friends
Race, language, and mental evolution in Darwin's descent of man
Charles Darwin was notoriously ambiguous in his remarks about the relationship between human evolution and biological race. He stressed the original unity of the races, yet he also helped to popularize the notion of a racial hierarchy filling the gaps between the highest anthropoids and civilized Europeans. A focus on Darwin's explanation of how humans initially evolved, however, shows that he mainly stressed not hierarchy but a version of humani…
When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals
Science and Religion in the Era of William James. Volume 1: The Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880 . Paul Jerome Croce
The Evolution Controversy in America
Family Quarrels and the English Language
Family Quarrels: towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English. By Feroza F. Jussawalla
Darwin and the linguists: The coevolution of mind and language, Part 2. The language–thought relationship
Race, language, and mental evolution in Darwin's descent of man
Charles Darwin was notoriously ambiguous in his remarks about the relationship between human evolution and biological race. He stressed the original unity of the races, yet he also helped to popularize the notion of a racial hierarchy filling the gaps between the highest anthropoids and civilized Europeans. A focus on Darwin's explanation of how humans initially evolved, however, shows that he mainly stressed not hierarchy but a version of humani…
From Babylon to Christianity: William Foxwell Albright on Myth, Folklore, and Christian Origins
The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth‐century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to demonstrate empirically the Hebrew Bible's substantial historicity. Less well known is Albright's research on Christian backgrounds, which by contrast reflected modernist theology's scepticism about the gospel narratives' literal truth. Drawing ideas from the “Pan‐Babylonian” school of biblic…
William Dwight Whitney and the Social Dimension of Lexical Diffusion
The paper traces how the American linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) and his intellectual descendants anticipated, and in part influenced, modern-day discussions of 'lexical diffusion', the piecemeal spread of phonological changes both through an individual speaker's word-inventory and speaker-to-speaker through an entire community. Whitney regarded these two processes as inextricably linked; he also stressed comparison between different…
Mandeville's Ship: Theistic Design and Philosophical History in Charles Darwin's Vision of Natural Selection
This essay examines the analogy of a savage observing a sailing ship found in the final chapter of Darwin's Origin of Species, an image that summed up his critique of British natural theology's "design" thesis. Its inspiration drawn from works by Mandeville and Hume, and Darwin's experience on the Beagle voyage, the ship illustration shows how Darwin conceived of natural selection's relationship to theistic design in terms of a historical conscio…
Darwin and the linguists: The coevolution of mind and language, Part 1. Problematic friends
Family Quarrels and the English Language
Family Quarrels: towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English. By Feroza F. Jussawalla
Science and Religion in the Era of William James. Volume 1: The Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880 . Paul Jerome Croce
The Evolution Controversy in America
When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals
Darwin and the linguists: The coevolution of mind and language, Part 1. Problematic friends
Race, language, and mental evolution in Darwin's descent of man
Charles Darwin was notoriously ambiguous in his remarks about the relationship between human evolution and biological race. He stressed the original unity of the races, yet he also helped to popularize the notion of a racial hierarchy filling the gaps between the highest anthropoids and civilized Europeans. A focus on Darwin's explanation of how humans initially evolved, however, shows that he mainly stressed not hierarchy but a version of humani…
Curiously parallel”: Analogies of language and race in Darwin’s Descent of man. A reply to Gregory Radick
Darwin and the linguists: The coevolution of mind and language, Part 2. The language–thought relationship
Mandeville's Ship: Theistic Design and Philosophical History in Charles Darwin's Vision of Natural Selection
This essay examines the analogy of a savage observing a sailing ship found in the final chapter of Darwin's Origin of Species, an image that summed up his critique of British natural theology's "design" thesis. Its inspiration drawn from works by Mandeville and Hume, and Darwin's experience on the Beagle voyage, the ship illustration shows how Darwin conceived of natural selection's relationship to theistic design in terms of a historical conscio…
William Dwight Whitney and the Social Dimension of Lexical Diffusion
The paper traces how the American linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) and his intellectual descendants anticipated, and in part influenced, modern-day discussions of 'lexical diffusion', the piecemeal spread of phonological changes both through an individual speaker's word-inventory and speaker-to-speaker through an entire community. Whitney regarded these two processes as inextricably linked; he also stressed comparison between different…
From Babylon to Christianity: William Foxwell Albright on Myth, Folklore, and Christian Origins
The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth‐century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to demonstrate empirically the Hebrew Bible's substantial historicity. Less well known is Albright's research on Christian backgrounds, which by contrast reflected modernist theology's scepticism about the gospel narratives' literal truth. Drawing ideas from the “Pan‐Babylonian” school of biblic…
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