Trevor Pearce
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3785245 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Trevor Pearce |
| NOMBRES | Trevor |
| APELLIDO | Pearce |
| FIRMA | PEARCE T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
John Dewey, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Comparative Jurisprudence
In this paper I argue that the “dynamic functionalism” of Dewey’s evolutionary approach to ethics – moral norms emerge to address specific problems but must be constantly readjusted to changing contexts – had its roots in the comparative jurisprudence of Sir Henry Sumner Maine and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. First, I will discuss the rise of the comparative sciences in the nineteenth century, part of the backdrop for the work of Maine and various e…
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolu…
Naturalism and Despair
Science Organized
In this paper, I explore the work of several positivists involved with the "Metaphysical Club" of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1870s-Fiske, Wright, and Abbot. Like the logical positivists of the 1930s, these philosophers were forced to answer a key question: with so many of its traditional domains colonized by science and so many of its traditional questions dismissed as metaphysical or useless, what is left for philosophy to do? One ans…
Entangled Life
Entangled Life History Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution
Determining whether a homoplastic trait is the result of convergence or parallelism is central to many of the most important contemporary discussions in biology and philosophy: the relation between evolution and development, the importance of constraints on variation, and the role of contingency in evolution. In this article, I show that two recent attempts to draw a black-or-white distinction between convergence and parallelism fail, albeit for …
Philosophy of biology in the twenty-first century
Evolution and Constraints on Variation
There is still a great deal of debate over what counts as a constraint and about how to assess experimentally the relative importance of constraints and selection in evolutionary history. I will argue that the notion of a constraint on variation, and thus the selection-constraint distinction, depends on two specifications: (1) what counts as a variant—constraints limit or bias the production of what ? and (2) range of assessment—over what range o…
From ‘circumstances’ to ‘environment’
From ‘circumstances’ to ‘environment’
Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution
Determining whether a homoplastic trait is the result of convergence or parallelism is central to many of the most important contemporary discussions in biology and philosophy: the relation between evolution and development, the importance of constraints on variation, and the role of contingency in evolution. In this article, I show that two recent attempts to draw a black-or-white distinction between convergence and parallelism fail, albeit for …
Science Organized
In this paper, I explore the work of several positivists involved with the "Metaphysical Club" of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1870s-Fiske, Wright, and Abbot. Like the logical positivists of the 1930s, these philosophers were forced to answer a key question: with so many of its traditional domains colonized by science and so many of its traditional questions dismissed as metaphysical or useless, what is left for philosophy to do? One ans…
Evolution and Constraints on Variation
There is still a great deal of debate over what counts as a constraint and about how to assess experimentally the relative importance of constraints and selection in evolutionary history. I will argue that the notion of a constraint on variation, and thus the selection-constraint distinction, depends on two specifications: (1) what counts as a variant—constraints limit or bias the production of what ? and (2) range of assessment—over what range o…
From ‘circumstances’ to ‘environment’
Philosophy of biology in the twenty-first century
Evolution and Constraints on Variation
There is still a great deal of debate over what counts as a constraint and about how to assess experimentally the relative importance of constraints and selection in evolutionary history. I will argue that the notion of a constraint on variation, and thus the selection-constraint distinction, depends on two specifications: (1) what counts as a variant—constraints limit or bias the production of what ? and (2) range of assessment—over what range o…
Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution
Determining whether a homoplastic trait is the result of convergence or parallelism is central to many of the most important contemporary discussions in biology and philosophy: the relation between evolution and development, the importance of constraints on variation, and the role of contingency in evolution. In this article, I show that two recent attempts to draw a black-or-white distinction between convergence and parallelism fail, albeit for …
Entangled Life
Entangled Life History Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Science Organized
In this paper, I explore the work of several positivists involved with the "Metaphysical Club" of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1870s-Fiske, Wright, and Abbot. Like the logical positivists of the 1930s, these philosophers were forced to answer a key question: with so many of its traditional domains colonized by science and so many of its traditional questions dismissed as metaphysical or useless, what is left for philosophy to do? One ans…
Naturalism and Despair
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolu…
John Dewey, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Comparative Jurisprudence
In this paper I argue that the “dynamic functionalism” of Dewey’s evolutionary approach to ethics – moral norms emerge to address specific problems but must be constantly readjusted to changing contexts – had its roots in the comparative jurisprudence of Sir Henry Sumner Maine and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. First, I will discuss the rise of the comparative sciences in the nineteenth century, part of the backdrop for the work of Maine and various e…
Philosophy (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (2 obras) · Environmental ethics (2 obras) · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (2 obras) · Evolution and Science Education (2 obras)