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Food for Thought

Dewey and Darwin

Tim Madigan on how Darwin influenced the Pragmatist.

“Darwin… offered us a new account of ourselves. He has argued that human beings, along with the rest of nature, need to be understood as the product of completely natural forces. And his theory asserts not only the natural origin of our bodies, but also the natural origin and development of our mental powers and our moral sense. To this extent, I suggest, his views have a singular significance for philosophy.”

Suzanne Cunningham, Philosophy and the Darwinian Legacy(1996), p.

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