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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: evolution
widely influential work profoundly affected the subsequent tradition of natural history. Buffon was also able to give these inquiries a concrete institutional basis. As the autocratic director of the Paris Jardin du Roi, with its attendent large Cabinet of specimens from...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: heredity and heritability
the gene as the unit of heredity. (There is a vast amount of helpful work on the history of heredity including Keller (2002), Griesemer (1994), Morange (1998), Moss (2003), Sapp (2003), Sarkar (1998), Wade (1992), Winther (2000; 2001) and contributors to Buerton et...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: behaviorism
circumstances in which a stimulus is presented. This and other difficulties prompted changes in behaviorism's commitments and new directions of research. One recent and fresh direction has been the study of the role of short term memory in cont...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: evolutionary
that knowledge differs from true belief in being justified. Ancient skeptics complained that all attempts to provide any such justification were hopelessly flawed. Another strand emerges from the attempt to provide a reconstruction of human knowledge showing how the pieces of...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Rorty, Richard
until he went to the University of Virginia, in 1982, as Kenan Professor of the Humanities. Rorty left the University of Virginia in 1998, accepting an appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. In the course of his caree...
Stanford Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould
and returned to New York to earn a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University in 1967. He has been Professor of Geology and Zoology at Harvard University, currently as the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard...
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