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130 Paul Sheldon Davies The traditional concept “purpose” illustrates the loss of authority in our humanistic concepts. The illu ...
Conceptual Conservatism 131 mechanism but had to originate from the creative efforts of an intelligent God (Paley 1802). At more ...
132 Paul Sheldon Davies except to say that they must come from a deity clever enough to design and manufacture such forms. Blume ...
Conceptual Conservatism 133 example, that the primary constituents of matter are indivisible particles, and particle is given at ...
134 Paul Sheldon Davies But suppose I am mistaken. Suppose McLaughlin is right that Blumenbach’s view, relative to the standards ...
Conceptual Conservatism 135 organisms. Biologists today can explain all the phenomena—all of them—that inspired Paley, Blumenbac ...
136 Paul Sheldon Davies inward and synthesize laterally. This expectation can be expressed as a directive for inquiry: (E) As we ...
Conceptual Conservatism 137 required to comprehend the contents of nonmental representations, namely photographs (Leslie and Tha ...
138 Paul Sheldon Davies that cause the action. The emotion of authorship—the felt sense that one’s own intention was the direct ...
Conceptual Conservatism 139 8.3 Normative Functions Armed with the directives for inquiry just described, I return to my opening ...
140 Paul Sheldon Davies contrary to Ruse, we ought to resist the urge to conceptualize the parts of plants and animals “as if” c ...
Conceptual Conservatism 141 that we set ourselves the task of trying to preserve these concepts. Adopting the task of trying to ...
142 Paul Sheldon Davies conservative, at least with respect to dubious concepts, and develop an orientation that is progressive, ...
Conceptual Conservatism 143 Kant’s strategy for reconciling the attribution of natural purposes with the effi cient causality p ...
144 Paul Sheldon Davies Davies, P. S. (2009). Subjects of the World: Darwin’s Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature. Chicag ...
Conceptual Conservatism 145 Price, C. (1995). Functional explanations and natural norms. Ratio (New Series), 7: 143–160. Richard ...
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9 Ecological Restoration: From Functional Descriptions to Normative Prescriptions Restoration ecology is the science and social ...
148 Andrew Light These criticisms stem directly from what has been the principal concern of environmen- tal ethicists since the ...
Ecological Restoration 149 been laid out. My underlying position is that we should try to tease apart a description of what a re ...
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