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Description: This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638.
An extraordinary conference was held on June 1982 to commemorate the centenary of Darwin's death. It occurred in a grand villa outside Florence. I was accosted at breakfast by a venerable Ernst Myer: 'You are Young. You are entirely mistaken. It is in my book.' Stuff like that. I gave a paper on which I attacked the distinction between Darwinism and Social Darwinism and therefore the boundary between the substance and the context of science. The argument was conducted as an historiographic reflection, and I managed to say some things about my position with gratifying clarity. The essay appeared on David Kohn, ed.,
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| Page title: | Darwinism is Social |
| Keywords: | Robert M. Young, Darwinism, social Darwinism, Spencer, Mayr |
| Description: | An extraordinary conference was held on June 1982 to commemorate the centenary of Darwin's death. It occurred in a grand villa outside Florence. I was accosted at breakfast by a venerable Ernst Myer: 'You are Young. You are entirely mistaken. It is in my book.' Stuff like that. I gave a paper on which I attacked the distinction between Darwinism and Social Darwinism and therefore the boundary between the substance and the context of science. The argument was conducted as an historiographic reflection, and I managed to say some things about my position with gratifying clarity. The essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., The Darwinian Heritage. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638. |
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