Kuhn'S 'Structure Of Scientific Revolutions' At Fifty: Reflections On A Science Classic

By Robert J. Richards, Lorraine Daston, Robert J. Richards (Editor), Lorraine Daston (Editor)

Thomas S. Kuhn’s __The Structure of Scientific Revolutions__ was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of f...

Kuhn'S 'Structure Of Scientific Revolutions' At Fifty: Reflections On A Science Classic

By Robert J. Richards, Lorraine Daston, Robert J. Richards (Editor), Lorraine Daston (Editor)

Thomas S. Kuhn’s __The Structure of Scientific Revolutions__ was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of f...

Debating Darwin

By Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse, Robert J. Richards And Michael Ruse

Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite h...

Darwin And The Emergence Of Evolutionary Theories Of Mind And Behavior

By Robert J. Richards

With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversi...

Darwin And The Emergence Of Evolutionary Theories Of Mind And Behavior

By Robert J. Richards, Robert J. J. Richards

With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversi...

The Meaning Of Evolution: The Morphological Construction And Ideological Reconstruction Of Darwin'S Theory

By Robert J. Richards, Robert J. J. Richards

Did Darwin see evolution as progressive, directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. In this challenge to prevailing views, Robert J. Richards say...

The Romantic Conception Of Life: Science And Philosophy In The Age Of Goethe

By Robert J. Richards, Robert John Richards

"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that th...

The Romantic Conception Of Life: Science And Philosophy In The Age Of Goethe

By Robert J. Richards, Robert John Richards, Richards, Robert J.

"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that th...

The Tragic Sense Of Life: Ernst Haeckel And The Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought

By Robert J. Richards

Prior To The First World War, More People Learned Of Evolutionary Theory From The Voluminous Writings Of Charles Darwin's Foremost Champion In Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), Than Through Any O...

An Introduction To Dynamics And Control

By Robert J. Richards, R. J. Richards