The First British Emergentist Attitude to Theory of Evolution
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https://doi.org/10.15633/sts.3543Keywords:
Emergentism, theory of emergence, theory of evolution, John Stuart Mill, George Henry Lewes, Charles Robert DarwinAbstract
In the nineteenth century, the theory of evolution was not yet widely accepted and was just beginning to spread in the scientific community, and thus also among British emergentists. The first representatives of British Emergentism were John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Mill is called the father of this line of thought, and Lewes coined the term emergent based on Mill’s heteropathic effect. The purpose of this article is to show the different approaches of Mill and Lewes to the theory of evolution.
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2020-01-20
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