A long-standing debate concerns whether humans are specialized for speech perception ; in the the second half of the nineteenth century, two of the primary figures in this debate were Charles Darwin and Friedrich Max Müller. A distinguished scholar and one of the leading figures of Victorian cultural life, Müller stated that language was a “Rubicon” [...]
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Rubicon crossed?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal, Apes, Darwin, Friedrich Max Müller. human, language on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Workshop in the History and Philosophy of Biology, Aberdeen, 21 May 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal, Darwin Correspondence Project, Dr Paul White, Sympathy, talk, Workshop on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dr White, from the Darwin Correspondence Project, is speaking on Darwin and the evolution of sympathy at a workshop in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. The event will focus on the moral and religious debates surrounding evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century and the implications of evolutionary theory for modern ethics [...]
