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... attempt to biologize social theory by articulating what they view as the profound implications of their scientific work. The writings of such distinguished scientists as Konrad Lorenz, Jacques Monod, Francis Crick, and Edward O. Wilson ...
... attempt to biologize social theory by articulating what they view as the profound implications of their scientific work. The writings of such distinguished scientists as Konrad Lorenz, Jacques Monod, Francis Crick, and Edward O. Wilson ...
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... attempting to do so, these scientists have, ironically, revived the Protestant tradition of natural philosophy and theology (albeit in a secularized form) from which natural science first diverged in the midnineteenth century. Their ...
... attempting to do so, these scientists have, ironically, revived the Protestant tradition of natural philosophy and theology (albeit in a secularized form) from which natural science first diverged in the midnineteenth century. Their ...
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... attempts at a sociological analysis of this phenomenon have been inadequate. To Randall Collins, sociobiology is politically conservative, "antihumanistic," and "antiliberal" in tone and expresses the widespread political swing to the ...
... attempts at a sociological analysis of this phenomenon have been inadequate. To Randall Collins, sociobiology is politically conservative, "antihumanistic," and "antiliberal" in tone and expresses the widespread political swing to the ...
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... attempting not to render capitalism "natural" but to reorder our psyches and societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be understood but as "scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic and often ...
... attempting not to render capitalism "natural" but to reorder our psyches and societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be understood but as "scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic and often ...
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... attempts to integrate the findings of a number of these works, most notably those of Robert Bannister, John Greene, James Moore, Frank problems and tensions within the minds of many over the Social Darwinism — The Failure of the ...
... attempts to integrate the findings of a number of these works, most notably those of Robert Bannister, John Greene, James Moore, Frank problems and tensions within the minds of many over the Social Darwinism — The Failure of the ...
Contents
From Metaphysics to Molecular Biology | 44 |
From Molecular Biology to Social Theory | 77 |
The Natural Theology of E O Wilson | 96 |
The Popularization of Human Sociobiology | 136 |
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