On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall).
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OTD in 1837, Charles Darwin first presented his theory of how coral reefs are formed to the Geological Society of London. The event marked his public debut as a theorist.
L: hand-colored section of Cocos Island atoll.
R: diagram of the same from his 1842 book (Darwin Online).
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Darwin later reconceived S’s sympathy” through an evolutionary lens, making morality more contingent and more widely distributed through the animal kingdom, than S had imagined.
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Greg Priest
Walt Whitman was born OTD in 1819.
Song of Myself is a singularly Darwinian poem. The re-placing of natural theological tropes in a thoroughly naturalistic setting is characteristic of both.
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Francis Crick was born OTD in 1916.
We've all seen the DNA diagram that appeared in Crick and Watson’s Nature paper (left), but have you seen his sketch (right), from which his wife Odile made the published version?
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Francis Crick was born OTD in 1916.
We've all seen the DNA diagram that appeared in Crick and Watson’s Nature paper (left), but have you seen his sketch (right), from which his wife Odile made the published version?
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Stewart pointed to Smith’s account of the development of human languages as an instance, but the epithet might equally be applied to Smith’s account of the evolution of moral principles out of our innate human faculty of “sympathy” with our fellows.
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Walt Whitman was born OTD in 1819.
Song of Myself is a singularly Darwinian poem. The re-placing of natural theological tropes in a thoroughly naturalistic setting is characteristic of both.
🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱#HistSTM #BookSky
My blog post on Darwin’s reimagining of sympathy is here: https://www.jhiblog.org/2017/11/13/what-if-humans-were-raised-like-bees-charles-darwin-and-the-evolution-of-morality/
My article on the same (paywall) here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf
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By Greg Priest Read the full companion article in this quarter’s Journal of the History of Ideas. A new biography of Charles Darwin is coming out. Styled as a “radical reappraisal,” the book, by...
Stewart pointed to Smith’s account of the development of human languages as an instance, but the epithet might equally be applied to Smith’s account of the evolution of moral principles out of our innate human faculty of “sympathy” with our fellows.
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Adam Smith was baptized OTD in 1723.
A frequent explanatory practice was what Dugald Stewart called “conjectural history”—a narrative, fictive in its particulars, that is somehow truer in capturing the general processes by which certain phenomena tend to unfold.
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Adam Smith was baptized OTD in 1723.
A frequent explanatory practice was what Dugald Stewart called “conjectural history”—a narrative, fictive in its particulars, that is somehow truer in capturing the general processes by which certain phenomena tend to unfold.
🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio
Greg Priest
Greg Priest
Greg Priest
Adam Smith was baptized OTD in 1723.
A frequent explanatory practice was what Dugald Stewart called “conjectural history”—a narrative, fictive in its particulars, that is somehow truer in capturing the general processes by which certain phenomena tend to unfold.
🐋🌱🦋🦫🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci #Evobio
