Darwin and the question of agency in nature and science

Like the Romantics, Charles Darwin was deeply though fruitfully torn between the mechanist dictate to banish agency from nature and the organicist impulse to naturalize agency, to make agency synonymous with life. His conflicting intellectual inheritances and allegiances put him in a state of profound and extraordinarily productive ambivalence.

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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2024-10-11
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https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15232
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Evolution and Science Education
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Darwin and the question of agency in nature and science

Jessica Riskin
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Evolution and Science Education
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Darwin and the question of agency in nature and science

Jessica Riskin
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Abstract

Like the Romantics, Charles Darwin was deeply though fruitfully torn between the mechanist dictate to banish agency from nature and the organicist impulse to naturalize agency, to make agency synonymous with life. His conflicting intellectual inheritances and allegiances put him in a state of profound and extraordinarily productive ambivalence.

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVol. 1541(1)
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