Critiques of Biologism

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Darwin, C. (1901). The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray.

Goodwin, B.C., (1995). How the Leopard Changed its Spots. London: Orion.

Goodwin, B.C., and Saunders, P. (1992). Theoretical Biology. Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order from Complex Systems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Gould, S.J. (1984). The Mismeasure of Man. London: Penguin.

Huxley, T.H. and Huxley, J. (1947). Evolution and Ethics. London: Pilot Press.

Koestler, A. and Smythies, J.R. (1969). Beyond Reductionism. London: Hutchinson.

Levins, R. and Lewontin, R. (1985). The Dialectical Biologist. London: Harvard University Press.

Lewontin, R.C. (1991). Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. New York: HarperCollins.

Lewontin, R.C. (2000). It Ain’t Necessarily So. The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions. London: Granta.

Montague, A. (1976). The Nature of Human Aggression. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Montague, A. (ed.) (1962). Culture and the Evolution of Man. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

O’Hear, A. (1997). Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Piaget, J. (1971b). Biology and Knowledge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Richards, R.J. (1987). Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behaviour. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Robinson, R.J. (in preparation). The Birth of Reason. www.prometheus.org.uk.

Rose, H., and Rose, S. (2000). Alas, Poor Darwin. Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Harmony Books.

Rose, S. (1997). Lifelines. Biology, Freedom, Determinism. London: Penguin.

Rose, S., Lewontin, R.C. and Kamin, L.J. (1984). Not in Our Genes. London: Penguin.

Simpson, G.G. (1969). Biology and Man. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Teilhard de Chardin, P. (1970). The Phenomenon of Man. London: William Collins.

Papers

Key papers & discussions

Goodwin, B.C. (19??). What are the causes of morphogenesis? BioEssays, 3, 1: 32–36.

Gould, S.J. and Lewontin, R.C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. London: Series B, 205: 581–598.

Wallace, A.R. (1864). The origin of human races and the antiquity of man deduced from the ‘Theory of Natural Selection’. Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, 2: 158–187.

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Websites

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