Science Philosophy of Science

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

by Gregory Radick, Jonathon Hodge Review by David Lorimer, December 2003

Published: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2003 486 pp. £42.50
Format: Paperback
Pages: 486
ISBN: 9781139828352

Publisher’s description

The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809–82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established…

Another very fine work on Darwin for generalist and specialist alike. The main organising themes are Darwin's theorising, historical contexts and philosophical themes. Of special interest to Network readers are John Hedley Brooke on Darwin and Victorian Christianity, Kim Sterelny on Darwinian Concepts in the Philosophy of Mind and Michael Ruse on Belief in God in a Darwinian Age, which discusses, inter alia, the naturalistic bent that many contemporaries take for granted.

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