Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On Charles Darwin's 1859 book, ch. 1-4, 6, and 14. What are the philosophical ramifications of Darwin's theory of evolution? We go through Darwin's arguments, compare his views to other theories of evolution like Lamarck's, and talk about how an evolutionary way of looking at things has influenced philosophers.

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0:16.4	You are listening to the Partial Examined Life,
0:18.2	a podcast by some guys who are at one point
0:20.3	said I'm doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.
0:23.3	Our question for episode 168 is something like
0:26.3	what accounts for the appearance of design in the natural world
0:29.0	and we read Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species,
0:32.0	chapters 1 through 4, 6 and 14.
0:34.0	First edition was published in 1859 with these six
0:37.0	and final edition that we read, published in 1872.
0:40.0	To get the reading and more information,
0:42.0	please check out partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:44.0	This is Mark Linson-Meyer,
0:46.0	who is not descended from no monkey in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:49.0	Wow.
0:50.0	This is Seth Paskin being crowded out by another species in Austin, Texas.
0:55.0	This is Wes Allen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:58.0	This is Dylan Casey sitting in my niche in Sunnyvale, California.
1:03.0	See, if we had more participants on the podcast in Boston,
1:06.0	then Wes would have to come up with things
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