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This collection of essays originated in conferences held at the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of Notre Dame to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. These essays, by leading scholars, assess the continuing relevance of Darwin's work from the perspectives of biological science, history, philosophy, and theology. The contributors focus on three primary areas: developments in evolutionary biology that open up new ground for interdisciplinary dialogue; reflections on human evolution, with a particular focus on evolution and ethics; and new reflections on theology and evolution, particularly from a Roman Catholic perspective, drawing both on traditional perspectives and on new currents in Catholic theology.
Contributors: Phillip R. Sloan, Gerald McKenny, Kathleen Eggleson, Scott F. Gilbert, Stuart A. Newman, Alessandro Minelli, David J. Depew, Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colagè, Paolo D'Ambrosio, Bernard Wood, Robert J. Richards, Paul E. Griffiths, John S. Wilkins, John O'Callaghan, William E. Carroll, Józef Życiński, Celia Deane-Drummond, Peter J. Bowler, and Jean Gayon.
"This volume emerges from a 2009 conference at the University of Notre Dame to mark Charles Darwin's bicentennial. An influential 1959 symposium at the University of Chicago marked the centennial of Darwin's On the Origin of Species and solidified a neo-Darwinian theory that has dominated interdisciplinary discourse on evolution since that time. This book evaluates subsequent changes to Darwinism and how they affect the humanities, especially Catholic theology." —Isis
Kathleen Eggleson is a research scientist with the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) at the University of Notre Dame.
List of Figures and Tables
Preface by Phillip R. Sloan, Gerald McKenny, Kathleen Eggleson
1. Introduction: Restructuring an Interdisciplinary Dialogue by Phillip R. Sloan
Part 1. Nature
2. Evolution through Developmental Change: How Alterations in Development Cause Evolutionary Changes in Anatomy by Scott F. Gilbert
3. The Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms: A New Perspective by Stuart A. Newman
4. The Evolvability of Organic Forms: Possible, Likely, and Unlikely Change from the Perspective of Evolutionary Developmental Biology by Alessandro Minelli
5. Accident, Adaptation, and Teleology in Aristotle and Darwinism by David J. Depew
6. The Game of Life Implies Both Teleonomy and Teleology by Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colagè, and Paolo D’Ambrosio
Part 2. Humanity
7. Humanity’s Origins by Bernard Wood
8. Darwin’s Evolutionary Ethics: The Empirical and Normative Justifications by Robert J. Richards
9. Crossing the Milvian Bridge: When Do Evolutionary Explanations of Belief Debunk Belief? By Paul E. Griffiths and John S. Wilkins
10. Questioning the Zoological Gaze: Darwinian Epistemology and Anthropology by Phillip R. Sloan
Part 3. God
11. Evolution and Catholic Faith by John O’Callaghan
12. After Darwin, Aquinas: A Universe Created and Evolving by William E. Carroll 13. Evolutionary Theism and the Emergent Universe by Józef Z ̇ycinski ́
14. Beyond Separation or Synthesis: Christ and Evolution as Theodrama by Celia Deane-Drummond
Part 4. Past and Future Prospects
15.Imagining a World without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler
16. What Future for Darwinism? by Jean Gayon
List of Contributors
Index