Biografia Le sue aree di specializzazione furono la filosofia della biologia e l'interazione tra scienza e religione.
Autore prolifico, pubblicò diversi libri e articoli per prestigiose case editrici universitarie. Fondò la rivista Biology and Philosophy.Burian, Richard M. (1988). «A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Biology». The Quarterly Review of Biology 63 (2): 193-195.
Fu professore di filosofia presso la Florida State University. Dichiaratosi ateo e agnostico, divenne particolarmente noto per il suo ruolo nel dibattito tra creazionismo ed evoluzione darwiniana negli Stati Uniti.
Opere The Darwinian revolution (1979) ISBN 0-226-73164-2 Is science sexist? and other problems in the biomedical sciences (1981) ISBN 90-277-1250-6 Darwinism defended, a guide to the evolution controversies (1982) ISBN 0-201-06273-9 Sociobiology, sense or nonsense? (1st ed. 1979, 2nd ed. 1985) ISBN 90-277-1798-2 Taking Darwin seriously: a naturalistic approach to philosophy (1986) ISBN 0-631-13542-1 Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry (1988) ISBN 0-631-17553-9 The Philosophy of biology today (1988) ISBN 0-88706-911-8 The Darwinian paradigm: essays on its history, philosophy and religious implications (1989) ISBN 0-415-08951-4 Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. (edited with Michael Travis) (2009) ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3 Evolutionary naturalism: selected essays (1995) ISBN 0-415-08997-2 Monad to man: the concept of progress in evolutionary biology (1996) ISBN 0-674-58220-9 But is it science? the philosophical question in the creation/evolution controversy (1996) (ed.) ISBN 0-87975-439-7 Mystery of mysteries: is evolution a social construction? (1999) ISBN 0-674-00543-0 Biology and the foundation of ethics (1999) ISBN 0-521-55923-5 Can a Darwinian be a Christian? the relationship between science and religion (2001) ISBN 0-521-63716-3 The evolution wars: a guide to the debates (2003) ISBN 1-57607-185-5 Darwin and Design: Does evolution have a purpose? (2003) ISBN 0-674-01631-9 Darwinian Heresies (edited with Abigail Lustig and Robert J. Richards) (2004) ISBN 0521815169 The Evolution-Creation Struggle (2005) ISBN 0-674-01687-4 Darwinism and its Discontents (2006) ISBN 0-521-82947-X Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species (edited with Robert J. Richards) (2008) ISBN 978-0-521-87079-5 Philosophy after Darwin (2009) ISBN 0-691-13553-3 Defining Darwin: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology (2009) ISBN 1-59102-725-X Science and Spirituality: Making room for faith in the age of science (2010) ISBN 0-521-75594-8 The Philosophy of Human Evolution (2012) ISBN 0-521-11793-3 The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (2013) ISBN 978-0226731704 Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (2015) ISBN 0-199-33458-7
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Voci correlate Evoluzione Biologia Creazionismo
Collegamenti esterni
Michael Ruse's page at FSU's History and Philosophy of Science site Michael Ruse on Charles Darwin: Evolution Is No Monkey Business Can a Christian be a Darwinian? Lecture given in 2007 at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
Biography and summary of Gifford Lectures (2001, University of Glasgow), by Dr Brannon Hancock
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