The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel
and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought.University of Chicago Press,
2008; paperback, 2009 (580 pp.). Winner of the University of Chicago Press's
Laing Prize. Sample chapters: Preface
& Chapter 1. (Reviews)
The Romantic Conception of Life:
Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe.University
of
Chicago
Press,
2002; paperback, 2004 (606 pp.). Winner of the
University
of
Chicago Press's
Laing Prize. (Reviews)
The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological
Reconstruction of Darwin'sTheory.Universityof
Chicago Press, 1992; paperback, 1993 (203 pp.).
Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior.University
of
Chicago Press
,
1987;
paperback, 1989 (700 pp.).
History of Science
Pfizer
Prize, best book in history of science, 1988.
.
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty, edited with Lorraine Daston. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics, edited with Michael Ruse. Cambridge: University of Cambrdige Press, 2017
Darwinian Heresies, edited with Abigail Lustig and Michael Ruse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species, edited with
Michael Ruse Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
"Ernst Haeckel, a Dream Transformed," in Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, eds. Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018)
"Instinct,"Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, eds. Jennifer Vonk and Todd Shackelford (New York: Springer International Publishing, 2018).
"Evolutionary Ethics: a Theory of Moral Realism," in The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics, eds. Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2017)
"Was Hitler a Darwinian?" in Robert J. Richards, Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), chap. 9.
"Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature," in Understanding Purpose: Kant and the Philosophy of Biology (vol. 8: North American Kant Society), ed. Philippe Huneman (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007).
"Darwin's Metaphysics of Mind,"
in Darwin and Philosophy, ed. Vittorio Hoesle and Christian Illies (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2005), pp.
166-80.
"Biology," in
David Cahan
(ed.), From Natural Philosophy to the
Sciences: Writing the History of
Nineteenth-Century Science (
Chicago
:
University
of
Chicago
Press, 2003), pp. 16-48.
"Race,"
Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. John Heilbron (
Oxford
:
University
of
Oxford
Press, 2002)
"The Epistemology of Historical
Interpretation: Progressivity and Recapitulation in Darwin's Theory" in Epistemology
and Biology, eds. Richard Creath and
Jane Maienschein
(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp.64-90.
"The Nature and Necessity of Cultural
History of Science," The Modern Schoolman 76 (1999).
"Darwin's Romantic Biology, the
Foundation of his Evolutionary Ethics," in Biology and the Foundation of
Ethics, ed.
Jane
Maienschein
and
Michael Ruse
(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,
1999), pp. 113-53.(A briefer version of
this article has been distributed as the Stiernotte Lecture for 1997).
"Charles Darwin," The MIT
Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999)
"Resistance
to Constructed Belief," in Questions of Evidence, eds. J. Chandler,
A. Davidson, and H. Harootunian (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
"Ideology
and the History of Science," in Biology and Philosophy , 8
(1993):103-108
"Birth,
Death, and Resurrection of Evolutionary Ethics," in EvolutionaryEthics ed. Matthew Nitecki (New
York:SUNY, 1993). reprinted as
"Evolutionare Ethik revidiert und gerechtfertigt," in Evolution
und Ethik, ed. Kurt Bayertz (Stuttgart:Reclam Verlag, 1993),
pp.168-98.
"Evolution," in Keywords
in Evolutionary Biology, edited by Evelyn Fox Keller and Elisabeth Lloyd.(Cambridge Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 95-105.
"The Structure of Narrative
Explanation in History and Science," in History and Evolution, ed. M. Nitecki and D. Nitecki (New
York:State University of New York
Press, 1992), pp. 19-54.
"The Moral Foundations of the
Idea of Evolutionary Progress:Darwin, Spencer,
and the Neo-Darwinians," in Evolutionary Progress, ed.Matthew Nitecki (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1988); reprinted
in Oxford Readings in Philosophy: The Philosophy of Biology, ed. D. Hull
and M. Ruse (Oxford:Oxford University
Press, 1998).
"A Defense of Evolutionary
Ethics," with replies by Cela-Conde, Gewirth, Hughes, Thomas, and Trigg,
and rejoinder "Justificationthrough Biological Faith," Biology and Philosophy 1, no. 3
(1986).Reprinted in Issues in
Evolutionary Ethics, ed.
Paul
Thompson (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1995).
"William James's Theory of
Mental Evolution," Contributions to a History of Developmental
Psychology, eds. G. Eckardt and W. Bringmann (Berlin:Mouton, 1985).
"Darwin and the Biologizing of
Moral Behavior," The Problematic Science:Psychology in Nineteenth-Century Thought,
eds W. Woodward and M. Ash (New York:Praeger, 1982),pp. 43-64.
"Emergence of Evolutionary
Biology of Behavior in the Early Nineteenth Century," British Journal
for the History of Science 15 (1982):241-280.
"Instinct and Intelligence in
British Natural Theology: Some
Contributions to Darwin's Theory of the Evolution of Behavior," Journal
of the History of Biology 14 (1981):193-230.
"Habit,"
"Imitation," "Instinct," "Rational
Soul"--articles for the Dictionary of the History of Science, eds.
W. Bynum, R. Porter, E.J. Browne (London: Macmillan; Princeton:Princeton
University Press, 1981).
"Natural Selection and Other
Models in the Historiography of Science," Scientific Inquiry and the
Social Sciences: a Volume in Honor of
Donald T. Campbell, eds. M. Brewer and B. Collins (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1981), pp. 37-76. Reprinted in Science and the Quest for
Reality, ed.Alfred Tauber
(London:Macmillan Press, 1997),
pp. 203-30.
"Wundt's Early Theories of
Cognitive Evolution and their Relation to Darwinian Biopsychology," Wundt Studies, eds. W.Bringmann and R. Tweney (Toronto, Goettingen, Zurich:Hogrefe, 1980):42-70.
"Influence of Sensationalist
Tradition on Early Theories of the Evolution of Behavior," Journal of the History of Ideas 40
(1979):85-105.
"The Natural Selection Model of
Conceptual Evolution," Philosophy of Science 44 (1977):494-501.
"Lloyd Morgan's Theory of
Instinct: from Darwinism to Neo-Darwinism,"
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 13 (1977): 12-32.
"You Can't Get There From Here:
Review of Henry Gee's In Search of Deep Time," New York Times Book
Review (Sunday, February 27, 2000), p.32.
"Designing Man: Review of Ian
Tattersall's Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness," New
York Times Book Review (Sunday, April 26, 1998), p. 30.
"Neanderthals Need Not Apply: Review
of C. Stringer and R. McKie's African Exodus: the Origins of Modern Humanity,"New York Times Book Review (Sunday, August 17,1997), p.10.
"Origins of Darwin: Review of John Bowlby's Charles
Darwin: A Biography," Chicago Tribune, Tribune
Books, (Sunday, June 23, 1991), pp.
6-7.
Professional Journals:
“Review of Christine Lehleiter’s Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. Isis 109 (December 2018): 850-51.
"Review of Lewis Petrinovich's Human
Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality," Quarterly Review of Biology 71
(1996):559-60.
"Review of
Paul
Farber's The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics,"
Isis
(1995).
"Review
of Ilse Bulhof's The Language of Science, a Study of the Relationship between
Literature and Science in the Perspective of a Hermeneutical Ontology,"
Isis (1993).
"Review of Hecaen and Albert's Human
Neurophysiology," Journal of the American Medical Association 240 (Dec. 1978): 2777.
Papers Delivered:
2018
"Romanticism in Science," Palgrave Workshop on Romanticism, DePaul University, May, 2018
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Clarke University, Dubuque, Iowa, April, 2018
"The Beautiful Skulls of Schiller and the Georgian Girl: Quantitative and Aesthetic Scaling of the Races, 1750-1850. University of Pennsylania, March, 2018
"Darwin's Moral Theory" and "Was Hitler a Darwinian?" University of Missouri, March 2018
2017
"Science and Its Social Context," SIFK Inaugural Conference, University of Chicago, November 2017.
2016
"The Role of Biography in Intellectual History," Form for the History of Human Sciences, Distinguished Lecture, History of Science Society, November, 2016.
"Doubt in Science," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, May, 2016.
2015
"The Beautiful Skulls of Friedrich Schiller and the Georgian Girl, University of Maastricht, Netherlands, October, 2015.
"The Beautiful Skulls of Schiller and the Georgian Girl," Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, October, 2015
"Debating Darwin," International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Ottawa, Canada, July, 2015
"Justification of Evolutionary Ethics," Conference on Evolutionary Ethics, Florida State University, March, 2015
"The Just Measurement of Schiller's Skull," Conference on Blumenbach, Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany, April, 2015
"Science and Religion in 19th Century Germany," Conference on Science and Religion, University of Wisconsin, April, 2015
2014
"Ernst Haeckel's Evolutionary Science and Romantic Art," Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany, July, 2014
"The Theory of the Archetype from Kant to Evo-Devo," Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna, Austria, June, 2014.
"Myth: That Darwin Worked on his Theory in Secrete for Twenty Years, his Fears Causing him to Delay Publication," Washington and Lee University, Virginia, May, 2014.
"Does Life have a Meaning," Veritas Forum, University of Chicago, April, 2014.
2013
"Secularism in Science," New York University, Novemer, 2013
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, October, 2013
"Philosophy of History: Explanation and Narrative,"Humanities Festival, University of Chicago, October, 2013
"Mind and Cosmos: Problems in the Theory of Evolution of Mind and Morality," Institute for the History of Origins, Case-Western Univeristy, Cleveland, April, 2013
"Problems in the Theory of the Evolution of Mind, 1876-2013," North-Eastern Victorian Society, Boston, April, 2013
"Celebrity in Science," Triple Helix Society, University of Chicago, March, 2013
"Was Hitler a Darwinian?" Science in Human Culture, Northwestern University, February, 2013
2012
"Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? Comments on Elliot Sober's Thesis," American Philosophical Society, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2012.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Templeton Foundation, Pennsylvania, December, 2012.
"The Impact of German Idealism and Romanticism on Biology in the 19th Century," the Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge, September, 2012 "Was Hitler a Darwinian and Does it Matter?" Dotterer Lecture, Penn State University, March, 2012.
"Roots of the Conflict between Evolutionary Theory and Religion," Kripke Lecture, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, March, 2012
"Evolutionary Restraints," symposium in honor of Mark Borrello, University of Minnesota, February, 2012
2011
"Was Hitler a Darwinian," the Hektoen Lecture for the Chicago History of Medicine Society, November, 2011
"Was Hitler a Darwinian," The Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, October 2011.
"Remembering David Hull," meeting of ISHPSSB, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, July, 2011.
"Reading Against the Grain--Comments," Symposium, University of Chicago Center, Paris, France, June, 2011.
"Was Hitler a Darwinian?" and "Darwin's Principle of Divergence and What Fodor Got Almost Right," History and Philosophy of Science, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland, May, 2011.
"Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution?"plenary lecture, Romanticism and Evolution, Western Ontario University, Canada, May, 2011.
"Darwin's Accomplishment," Columbia University, New York, NY, April, 2011.
2010
"Darwin's Principle of Divergence and What Fodor Got Almost Right," Faculty of History, Oxford University, England, October, 2010
"Darwin's Principle of Divergence and What Fodor Got Almost Right," plenary lecture, Integrating Complexity and History, Western Ontario University, October, 2010
"The Impact of German Romanticism on Biology in the Nineteenth Century," Idealism in Science, Notre Dame, September 2010
"Aesthetics and Objectivity in Haeckel's Defesne of Evolutionary Theory," Stanford University, May 2010
"Darwinian Morality," The Evolution of Conscience, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2010
"Darwin and Haeckel," University Lecture, Cornell University, April 2010
"Complementary Aspects of History and Philosophy of Science," Florida State University, April 2010 "The Enchantment of the World: Darwin's Theory of Mind in Nature," Roskilde Universitet, Copenhagen, March 2010.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, February 2010.
"Darwin's Accomplishment in the Origin of Species," Midwest Faculty Seminar, Chicago, January 2010.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Fortnightly, Chicago, January, 2010
2009
"Darwin's Theory of Morality and Its Normative Validity," Celebration of Darwin, Virginia Tech, November, 2009
"'All that is most beautiful': Darwin's Theory of Morality and Its Normative Validity," Darwin in the 21st Century, Notre Dame University, November, 2009
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Darwin-Chicago 2009, conference to celebrate the Darwin anniversaries, University of Chicago, October, 2009
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Chicago Service League, October 2009.
"Nietzsche and Darwin," University of Chicago Law School, October, 2009
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design" and "A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics," Phi Beta Kappa Lectures, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, September, 2009
"Darwin's Metaphysics of Mind and the Continuity of Nature," Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, September, 2009.
"The Enchantment of the World: Darwin's Theory of Mind in Nature," Dep. of History, Michigan State University, September, 2009.
"Darwin on Human Nature and Belief," Cambridge--Darwin Festival, Cambridge, England, July, 2009.
"The Nature of Biological Theory in the Nineteenth Century," History of Biology Seminar, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, May, 2009.
"Darwin's Accomplishment in Biology and Moral Theory," Bogazici University, Instanbul, Turkey, May, 2009.
"Embryos, Nazis, and the Charges of Fraud against Ernst Haeckel, " Ernst-Abbe-Kolloquium, Jena Germany, April, 2009..
"Embryos, Nazis, and the Charges of Fraud against Ernst Haeckel Then and Now, Graduate School, University of Cincinnati, April, 2009.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Taft Institute and Department of History, University of Cincinnati, April, 2009.
"Embryos, Nazis, and the Charges of Fraud against Ernst Haeckel Then and Now," Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, April, 2009.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, April, 2009.
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," invited talk to the History Honors Society, Illinois Weslyan, Bloomington, Illinois, April, 2009.
"Viability of Evolutionary Ethics," invited talk to the undergraduate forum, Notre Dame University, April, 2009.
“Nature and Morality in the Nineteenth Century,” Plenary Session,
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Milwaukee, March, 2009.
"'All that is most beautiful': Darwin's Theory of Morality," American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicgo, February, 2009.
"Darwin's Place in History--A Reevaluation," National Academy of Sciences’ Sackler colloquium In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin
,
Irvine, California, January, 2009.
2008
"Goethe's and Schelling's Theories of Species Evolution," Keynote Address to Goethe Society, Pittsburgh, November, 2008
"The Moral Purpose of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Anastopolo Lecture, Graham School, Chicago, November, 2008
“The Moral Foundations of Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory” and "What Kind of Politics Does Evolutionary Theory Support,"Case-Wester Reserve University, September, 2008.
"Darwinism, Natural Theology, and Moral Values," Butler University, September, 2008.
"Comments on Historical Epistemology," Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany, July 2008. "TheTragic Sense of Ernst Haeckel: His Scientific and Artistic Struggles,"Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, June 2008.
"Haeckel's Darwinism: Charges of Fraud and Complicity in Nazi Biology." History, Philosophy, and Technology Colloquium, Stanford University, May, 2008
“Beyond Biology: The Sources of Racial Categories in Evolutionary Thought,” Humanities Center, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, April, 2008
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design," Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Rockford College, Rockford Illinois, April, 2008
"Objectivity in the Visualization of Life," workshop of the History of Science Program, Princeton University, February, 2008.
"Darwin's Natural Theology," Gleacher Center, University of Chicago, March, 2008.
2007
"Werther Electrified: Science and Romanticism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," Midwest Faculty Seminar, Univeristy of Chicago, November, 2007.
"Darwin's Place in the History of Biology," Darwin Celebration, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, November, 2007.
"Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection and Its Moral Purpose," presented at the Cambridge Companion Conference,
Florida State University, March, 2007
"How Schelling Solved Goethe's Kantian Problems," Weissbourd Conference, University of Chicago, April, 2007
"Religion, Evolution, and the Charges Against Haeckel," Rice University, April, 2007
2006
“Responsibility in Evolutionary
Theory,”conference on “Responsibility
in the Human Sciences, The Chicago-Max Planck Conference in the History of the
Human Sciences, October, 2006.
“Did Ernst Haeckel Fraudulently
Misrepresent Embryos and Why are Intelligent Designers Interested,” Department
of History of Science, Univeristy of Minnesota, September, 2006.
“Religion in the Evolution Debate of
the 19th Century,” Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen,
Germany, June,
2006.
“Romanticism,” and “Darwin Studies,”
Academia Sinica and Institute of History & Center for Science, Technology
and Society, Taiwan, China, May, 2006.
“Biology and Medicine:the Haeckel-Virchow Dispute over Evolution,”
American Association for the History of Medicine, HalifaxNova Scotia,
May, 2006.
“Darwin’s
Biology of Intelligent Design,” Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of South Dakota,
April2006.
________.Midwest Faculty Seminar, The University of Chicago, April 2006.
________.Lecture at the Humanist Society of Chicago, February, 2006
2005
“Ernst Haeckel’s Travel to the Canary
Islands:the Empirical Justification of
Darwin’s Theory, symposium on “Naturalists Voyaging,” in honor of Richard
Burkhardt, University of Illinois, November, 2005.
“Did Ernst Haeckel Fradulently
Represent his Embryo Illustrations,” Department of History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, September, 2005.
________.Conference on Developmental and Evolutionary
Biology, University
of Chicago, October, 2005.
“The Moral Grammar of Narrative
History:Evolution and Nazi Biology,”
Ryerson Lecture, University
of Chicago, April, 2005.
________, Depts. of History and
Biology, OberlinCollege, April, 2005
“Darwin’s
Romantic Biology,” Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, GrinnellCollege,
April, 2005.
________, Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, AlfredUniversity,
April, 2005.
2004
“The Tragic Sense of Life:Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over
Evolutionary Theory,” Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Centre Alexandre
Koyré and the CNRS, Paris,
December, 2004.
“Haeckel’s and Miklucho-Maclay’s
Polymorphous Demonstration of Darwin’s Theory, or How to Deep-Six your Graduate
Student,” Annual History of Science Society Meeting, Austin, Texas,
November, 2004
“The Nature of History,” Humanities
Day, University
of Chicago, October,
2004.
“Did Ernst Haeckel Fraudulently
Depict the Human Embryo,” The Thomas Hall Lecture, WashingtonUniversity
in St. Louis,
October, 2004.
“The Nature of Popular Science,” Dept. of Biology, Washington
University in St. Louis,
October, 2004.
“The Politics and Epistemology of
Evolutionary Theory:Yesterday and Today,”
Conference on Biology and Values, Florida State University, April, 2004.
“The Erotic Foundations of
Morphology,” The William Coleman Humanities Lecture, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, March, 2004.
"Goethe’s Use of Kant in the
Erotics of Nature," Depts. of Philosophy and Liberal Studies, Notre Dame
University, March, 2004.
“Response to Critics of The Romantic Conception of Life,
American Philosophical Society, Pacific Division, March, 2004.
2003
“Ernst Haeckel:Lamarckian or Darwinian,” delivered at the
symposium on Lamarck sponsored by the French Cultural Ministry, Wellcome
Institute, London, December, 2003
“Darwin’s Romantic Biology,” Phi Beta
Kappa Lecture, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, December, 2003.
“Politics and Epistemology of the
Theory of Evolution:the Haeckel-Virchow
Debate,” delivered at the annual meeting of the History
of Science Society, Boston,
November, 2003.
“Spencer’s Relations to Darwin,” read
at The Galton Institute, Linnean Society of London, September, 2003.
“Kant and Goethe,” delivered at the
meeting of the Society for 18th Century Studies, UCLA, August, 2003
“The
Science and Politics of Evolution 19th and 21st Century Controversies about the
Teaching of Darwin,” Case-Western Reserve University, September, 2003.
“Politics and Scientific Epistemology:The Haeckel-Virchow Dispute,” presented at
the biannual meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and
Sociology of Biology, Vienna, Austria, July, 2003.
“Defense of The Romantic Conception of Life, presented at ISHPSB, Vienna,
Austria, July, 2003.
“On Stephen Jay Gould’s Structure of Evolutionary Theory,” presented
at ISHPSB, Vienna, Austria, July, 2003.
“Aesthetic Foundations of Ernst
Haeckel’s Evolutionary Project,” The Many Faces of Evolution in Europe, ca.
1860-1914, Groningen, The Netherlands, April, 2003.
“The Erotic Sources of Goethe’s
Science of Morphology,” Symposium on Form and Function, Fundació la Caixa,
Barcelona, Spain, March, 2003
2002
“The Erotic Authority
of Nature:Nature, Science, and the
Female during Goethe’s Italian Journey,” University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, December, 2002.
“The Logic and Rhetoric of Darwin’s Origin of Species,” Midwest Faculty
Seminar, University of Chicago, October, 2002.
“The Vertebral Theory of the
Skull:Goethe’s Dispute with Oken and
the Truth of Memory,” in the symposium on “Oersted & the Romantic Legacy,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May, 2002.
“The Ethical Status of Reproductive
Cloning,” delivered at the University of Chicago, President’s symposium,
Chicago, April, 2002.
2001
“The Erotic Sources of Goethe’s
Science,” in the symposium “Ulterior Motives,” History
of Science Society Meeting, Denver, November, 2001
“German Romanticism,” Humanities Day,
The University of Chicago, October, 2001.
“How Schelling Solved Goethe’s Kant Problem” and “Goethe and
the Erotic Authority of Nature,” given at the NEH Institute on Romantic
Philosophy and Literature, Colorado State University, July, 2001
“Did Ernst Haeckel Fake his Embryo
Illustrations?”read at the
International Meeting of the Morphological Society, Jena, Germany, July, 2001
“Darwin’s Origin of Species:Conclusive Evidence and Religious
Assumption,” talk sponsored by the Department of Evolution and Ecology,
University of Chicago, April, 2001
“Darwin’s Metaphysics of Mind,” given at the conference
Darwinism and Metaphysics, Notre Dame University, March, 2001
“The Erotic Authority of Nature:Nature, Science, and the Female during
Goethe’s Italian Journey,” read to the History and Philosophy of Science
Colloquium, Northwestern University, January, 2001.
“Thomas Kuhn:‘Science
as Mob Rule,’” presented to the Social Science Series, The University of
Chicago, February, 2001.
2000
“Ernst Haeckel’s Orthodox Darwinism
and his Heterodox Defense,” presented to the conference “Darwinian Heretics,”
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, December, 2000.
“Nature is the Poetry of Mind, or How
Schelling Solved Goethe’s Kantian Problems,” Dibner Institute Symposium “Kant
and the Exact Sciences,” MIT, Cambridge, November, 2000.
“The Erotic Authority of Nature:Nature, Science, and the Female during
Goethe’s Italian Journey,” Humanities Division, Case-Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, November, 2000
“Darwin’s Romantic Biology,” Department of Philosophy, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, November, 2000
“How Ernst Haeckel Became a
Virulent Darwinist,” annual meeting of the History of
Science Society, Vancouver,
November, 2000.
“The Erotic Authority of Nature:
Nature, Science, and the Female during Goethe’s Italian Journey,” annual
meeting of the Society for Intellectual History, Chicago, September, 2000
________, Franke Humanities
Institute, University of Chicago, October, 2000
“Did Friedrich Schelling
Kill Auguste Böhmer and Does it Matter?Or,
the Role of Biography in Intellectual History,” symposium on biography,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, September, 2000
“Scientific Transcendence
and Historical Reality: the Case of Darwin's Romantic Biology," Akademie
der Wissenschaft, Berlin, May, 2000
“The Erotic Authority of Nature: Nature, Science, and the Female during
Goethe’s Italian Journey,” symposium on the Moral Authority of Nature,
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, June, 2000
“The Linguistic Creation of Man:
Darwinian Foundations of Romantic Biology,” delivered to the general
colloquium, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, February,
2000
“Darwinian Evolutionary
Psychology,” delivered at the symposium “Promise and Limits of Reductionism in
Biology and Medicine,” sponsored by INSERM, Paris, April, 2000
1999
"The Linguistic Creation of Man:
Darwin, Schleicher, Haeckel, and the Missing Link in 19th-Century
Evolutionary Biology," read to the STS program at M.I.T., Cambridge, MA,
November, 1999.
________, presented to the
Departments of History and Biology, UCLA, Los Angles, CA, November 1999.
________,
presented at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin,
September, 1999
“The Role of God in Darwin’s Biology,” annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Pittsburgh, PA,
October, 1999.
"Introduction to the Thought of
Ernst Haeckel," "Haeckel and the Linguistic Creation of Man,"
and "Haeckel's Theory of Recapitulation," in the symposium on the
"Biology of Ernst Haeckel," Woods Hole, MA, June, 1999.
"'I have composed poetry,
fingering along her spine: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Biology and the Problem
of Women," lecture given to the "Mind Series" for the Graham
School, University of Chicago, May, 1999
"The Linguistic Creation of Man:
Darwin, Schleicher, Haeckel, and the Missing Link in 19th-Century
Evolutionary Biology," delivered to the History of Science program,
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
________, delivered to the Midwest
Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, April, 1999
"Scientific Transcendence and
Historical Reality: the Case of Darwin's Romantic Biology," Symposium at
the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, April, 1999
1998
"The Linguistic Creation of Man:
Darwin, Schleicher, Haeckel, and the Missing Link in 19th-Century
Evolutionary Biology," paper presented to the group in History and
Philosophy of Science, Northwestern University, November, 1998
"The Sexual Selection of
Women," Illinois Humanities Festival, Field Museum, Chicago, November,
1998
“Linguistics and the Romantic
Conception of the Darwinian Theory of Human Evolution,” Altenberg Workshop in
Theoretical Biology, AltenbergBVienna, Austria, August, 1998.
“The Nature and Necessity of Cultural
History of Science,” Dibner Symposium on Historiography, Cambridge, MA, August,
1998
“The Linguistic Creation of Man, or
the Missing Link in 19th-Century Evolutionary Theory,” Symposium on 19th
Century Science, Bellagio, Italy, July, 1998
“I love the Smell of Napalm in the
Morning: Science Wars,” read to the Dibner Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May,
1998
“Darwin’s Romantic Biology,”
presented to the Humanities Division of Cal. Tech., Pasadena, California,
April, 1998
“Cultural History of Science,”
presented at the Henle Symposium, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., April,
1998
“Darwin’s
Romantic Biology, a Foundation for Evolutionary Ethics,” in the University of
Chicago Alumni Sponsored Symposium “Evolutionary Debates Then and Now:
Dinosaurs, Human Origins, and Ethics,” Chicago, February, 1998
“Darwin’s Romantic Biology and Its
Legacy,” presented in the Humanities West Symposium “Darwin’s Menagerie: Victorians,
Sociobiologists and Other Endangered Species,” San Francisco, March, 1998
1997
“Out of Language Sprang the Tree of
Life,” conference on Language as a Model of Science, Deutsches Museum, Munich,
Germany, November 1997
“The Promise and Reality of Cultural
History of Science,” annual meeting of the History of
Science Society, San
Diego, November 1997
“Did Friedrich Schelling Kill Auguste
Böhmer and Does it Matter?Or, How to do
Intellectual History,” Dept. of Philosophy, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 1997.
“The Sciences of Freud and Darwin,” annual
meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, August, 1997.
“Foundations of Konrad Lorenz’s
Theory of Behavior,” “Darwin’s Knowledge of von Baer,” and “Darwin’s Romantic
Biology,” papers invited for the conference “Evolutionary Naturalism 1997:Bioepistemology and the Challenge of
Development and Sociality,” Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology,
Altenberg, Vienna, Austria, June, 1997
“Did Friedrich Schelling Kill Auguste
Böhmer and Does It Matter?Or How to do
Intellectual History,” paper presented to the Department of Philosophy,
University of Chicago, May, 1997
“Rhapsodies on a CatBPiano, or Johann
Christian Reil and the Foundations of Romantic Psychiatry,” History of the
Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, February, 1997
“Darwin’s Romantic Biology,”
Colloquium on Literature and Philosophy, Northwestern University, Chicago,
January, 1997
_______, Department of Biology, The
University of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 1997
_______, Delivered to the Library
Society, The University of Chicago, April, 1997
