Psychology
- 941
- Darwin and the Genre of Biography
- Published in G. Levine, ed., 'One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature'. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 203-24.
- 942
- Darwin's Metaphor and the Philosophy of Science
- This was first presented to the Piaget Seminar, University of Geneva, about 1986 and published in Science as Culture (no. 16) 3: 375-403, 1993. It draws out the philosophical implications of 'Darwin's Metaphor' (Cambridge, 1985), in particular, the role of metaphorical and teleological language in Darwin.
- 943
- Darwin, Marx, Freud and the Foundations of the Human Sciences
- This is a talk on the grand view of the human sciences, presented to CHEIRON, the European Society for the History of the Behavioural Sciences and reprinted in its Newsletter, Spring 1988, pp. 7-12.
- 944
- Darwin: Man and Metaphor
- This is the text of a television documentary in the series 'Late Great Victorians', BBC1, 1988. It was also published in Science as Culture no. 5: 71-86, 1989.
- 945
- Darwinism and the Division of Labour
- The founding conference of the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science in November 1970, was on the theme, 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. The conference was attended by a number of eminent scientists, e.g., Nobel Laureates James Watson, Jaques Monod, Maurice Wilkins; David Bohm, Jacob Bronowski, R.G. Edwards (of Steptoe and Edwards, the pioneers of 'test-tube babies'), as well as some radicals, Hilary and Steven Rose, John Beckwith. It was, perhaps, the last moment when radicals and posh scientists were relatively united. The talk was published in The Listener, 17 August 1972, pp. 202-5 and in Science as Culture no. 9: 110-24, 1990.
- 946
- Darwinism is Social
- This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638.
- 947
- Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View
- This article is largely historical, but the issues remain timely.
- 949
- Evolutionary Biology and Ideology: Then and Now
- A paper contributed to a conference on 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. It appeared in Science Studies 1: 177-296, 1971.
- 952
- Herbert Spencer and Inevitable Progress
- Spencer is so grandiose that it is hard to summarize his ideas, yet he was one of the most influential thinkers in nineteenth-century Britain, and his ideas were an inspiration around the world. His version of evolution was utterly generalised in all the ways Darwin tried to be circumspect. The organic analogies which Spencer developed are the foundation-stones for the widespread idea of functionalism across the biomedical and human sciences, extending to architecture, systems theory, cybernetics and information theory. The essay was reprinted in a collection from the journal: G. Marsden, ed., Victorian Values. Longman, 1990.
- 953
- In Favor of Animal Consciousness
- An excerpt from Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin, the creator of the field of cognitive ethology.
- 954
- Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint
- A paper was presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, London, on 20 March 1998.
- 956
- Memory Experts Show Sleeping Rats May Have Visual Dreams
- Matthew Wilson contends that animals have complex dreams.
- 957
- NYTimes.com: Exuberance is Rational
- Richard Thaler has led a revolution in the study of economics by understanding the strange ways people behave with their money.
- 958
- Scholarship and the History of the Behavioural Sciences
- A paper that first appeared in History of Science 2: 1-51, 1966.
- 959
- Social Power and Self Deception
- Social evolution and social influence: selfishness, deception, self-deception. A scholarly paper by Mario F. Heilmann, University of California at Los Angeles.
- 960
- Sociobiology Sanitized: The Evolutionary Psychology and Genic Selectionism Debates
- Socio-political overview of the circumstances leading to the development of Evolutionary Psychology as distinct from Sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This web page is associated with the Science-as-Culture mailing list and journal.