Original Articles

Did Darwin initially develop a theory of evolution in the biological sense of the word?

Published in: South African Journal of Philosophy
Volume 26 , issue 2 , 2007 , pages: 190–203

DOI: 10.4314/sajpem.v26i2.31473

Author(s): D F M Strauss Dean’s Office Faculty of the Humanities University of the Free State, South Africa

Abstract

Darwin’s physicalist orientation reacts to a long-standing vitalistic mode of thought of idealistic morphology and should be assessed by taking other 19th and 20th centuries biological schools of thought into account - trends that each emphasised different modes of explanation, such as mechanicism, physicalism, holism, neo-vitalism, organismic biology and pan-psychism.

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