I was delighted to receive in the mail today copies of the newest volumes in The Routledge Philosophers series: Merleau-Ponty by Taylor Carman (Barnard College & Columbia University) and Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca (Yale University). Anyone familiar with the work of these scholars knows that these books are likely to quickly become the leading works on these philosophers for both students and scholars seeking an authoritative introduction to... [Read More]
Reviewed by Bruce Weber, California State University, Fullerton / Bennington College
Michael Ruse needs no introduction to anyone who has read about the philosophy of biology or the controversies surrounding Darwinism over the past three-and-a-half decades. Ruse, the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, is the author of numerous books on the historical and philosophical aspects of Darwinism (which are characterized by lucid and lively prose) as well as the founding editor of the journal Biology and Philosophy. In Charles Darwin, a volume in the Blackwell Great Minds series, Ruse addresses Darwin's key insights about evolution as presented primarily in On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man... [Read More]