Evolution's First Philosopher: John Dewey and the Continuity of Nature

Index

Achaearanea tepidariorum, 46 Acton, Lord, 109 Adlerian psychologists, 138 aesthetic forms, 102 Agile Gene, The, 40, 51, 146 AIDS, 87 allelon, 110 alleopathy, 110 Alzheimer’s disease, 79 American Individualism, 124, 145 American Naturalist, 104 analytic-synthetic distinction, 47 Ancestor’s Tale, The, 35, 64, 76, 144 a priori understanding, 48, 49 argument from design, 3 Aristotle, 47 Aristotle’s syllogistic logic, 7 Armstrong, Neil, 79 autonomous agents, 111–114 thinkers, 117 Avery, Oswald, 19, 21 axon terminals, 55 Bainbridge, David, 28 Baldwin effect, xii, 95, 103–106, 110, 117 and democracy 106–110 Baldwin, James Mark, 104, 106, 107, 143 Beagle, HMS, 18, 35 Beagle II, 18 Berry, Chuck, 125 biases, 7 Bible, 99 Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relationship Between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes , 47, 146 Birth of the Mind, The: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought, 51, 145 Blackmore, Susan, 63, 145 Blank Slate: Modern Denial of Human Nature, The, 38, 51, 146 Bode, Boyd H., 126, 143 brain itches, 61 Brain-Wise, 11, 13, 50, 143 Brameld, Theodore, 131, 143 Bremmer, J. D., 58, 143 Bryn Mawr College for Women, 28 Calhoun, Senator John Caldwell, 136 cambium of growth, 129 Capone, Al, 112 149 Index Caporale, Lynn Helena, 19, 20, 21, 23, 35, 77, 78, 82, 83, 143 Carroll, Lewis, 24 Cartesian rationalism, 138 central dogma of biology, 31 Chargaff, Erwin, 19 Choc, Jae Chyn, 60, 145 Christianity, 139 chromosomes, 21–23, 28–30 Churchland, Patricia, 11, 13, 50, 143 Churchland, Paul, 11, 55, 70, 71, 78, 143 Civil Disobedience, 124 classical liberalism, 120, 121, 122–126, 127, 128 Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Education, 71, 146 cold war, 84 Collapse: How Societies Chose to Fail or Succeed, 115, 144 computationalism, 69, 71 connectionists, 70 consciously shared interests, 102 consciousness, 64–66, 102, 103 Consciousness Explained, 71, 144 contextual relativism, 91 corpus callosum, 54 cortisol, 58, 59 Creationist, 18 Crick, Frances, 4, 19, 137 Critique of Pure Reason, 47, 147 Crowe, Russell, 35 Cunningham, Suzanne, 2, 5, 6, 143 cystic fibrosis, 45 Darwin, Charles, xi, xii, 1, 3, 8, 13, 17, 31, 34, 35, 39, 67, 81, 83, 91, 93, 96, 101, 106 Darwin in the Genome, 77 Darwinism, 10, 13, 17, 53 Darwin’s bulldog, 3 Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, 17, 35, 41, 68, 71, 88, 144 Dawkins, Richard, xii, 1, 8, 13, 17, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 49, 53, 61, 62, 64, 76, 77, 78, 79, 85, 91, 110, 137, 141, 144 democracy, xiii, 1, 101 as attitude, 86 as means, 83–85 Dewey’s criteria for, 101–103, 117 misunderstanding of, 84 growth versus, 84 standards for, 102 Democracy and Education, 84, 85, 93, 102, 144 dendrites, 55 Dennett, Daniel, xi, xii, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 31, 32, 35, 38, 40, 41, 45, 46, 49, 53, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 81, 88, 91, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 117, 121, 122, 137, 140, 144 Depew, David J., 104, 117, 144 Descent of Man, The, 6, 8, 35, 144 Devil’s Chaplain, A, 13, 25, 144 Dewey’s concept of growth, 75, 98–99 Darwinism, 91 definition of education, 81 pragmatism, 75, 87 standard for growth, 82 statement of the fundamental fallacy of physical ethics, 76 value theory, objection to, 91 Diamond, Jared, 27, 28, 104, 115, 117, 144 Diggins, John P., 120, 144 criticisms of Dewey, 136–140 digital virtual machines, 69 discontinuity, 81 DNA, 3, 4, 10, 12, 19, 23, 30, 34, 39, 45, 48, 63, 77, 86 DNA: The Secret of Life, 17, 147 dogma of embryology, 33 INDEX 150 ear worms, 61 education, 81 Dewey’s definition of, 81 emergence of mind, 82 empiricism, xi epistemology, xi, 2 ethical commons, 116 Ethics, 96, 97, 117, 144 Euclidian conception of space, 49 geometry, 46, 48, 50 eugenics movement in America, 27 evolution as algorithm, 18 as progressive in weak sense of, 79 Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered, 104, 117, 144 Evolution and Modification of Behavior, 47, 145 evolutionary psychology, 139 Evolution’s Captain, 18, 35, 147 Experience and Nature, 117, 144 Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 39, 144 Extended Phenotype, The, 31, 110, 144 falsifiability, 33 fictional dialogue, 88 fight or flight hormone, 59 see also cortisol, 59 First Amendment to the Constitution, 102 FitzRoy, Captain...