[lit-ideas] Re: Grice on Darwin (Was: Popper on Darwin)
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:14:08 +0100 (BST)
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From: "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
>It is an unfortunate fact that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by
natural selection is typically discussed either as a speculative leap of
genius or as the inevitable product of various sorts of religious,
political, scientific and philosophical influences on him. In this
lecture I will present Darwin’s discoveries in a very different light,
as the product of Darwin constantly asking questions and pursuing long
and complex chain of inductive reasoning in which his ability to
integrate apparently unrelated abstractions —“large classes of facts” as
he sometimes refers to them in On the Origin of Species—plays the key
role. To explore these aspects of Darwin’s research I rely on the large
mass of unpublished notes, notebooks and correspondence (now available
online) for it is here that one sees Darwin’s uncommon powers of
inductive reasoning at work.>
Perhaps someone might care to flesh out this claimed "inductive reasoning" so
we can see how "inductive" it really is - or reveal whether this is just yet
another of those traditional but fraudulent claims made as to the role of
"inductive reasoning" in science by people who really should better by now?
Donal
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