Lovejoy, A. O. Schopenhauer as an Evolutionist

An Evolutionist in an Epistemological Wonderland

The paper on cascading chromosomal speciation and hybrid sinks which follows this preface was written in 1977. It faced surprising and initially incomprehensible difficulties in reviews. The epistemology and heuristic organization of the "comparative approach'' used was incommensurable with the reviewers' Kuhnian paradigms. To provide a "key" for translating from the comparative heuristic, the ...

Mass Torts: An Institutional Evolutionist Perspective

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

The current revolution in molecular parasitology often makes us forget about the subtleties of host-parasite ecology, i.e., how the whole parasite interacts with its vertebrate host. Dr. Gutierrez's book reminds us of what we are missing. Its pages represent a scholar's lifetime of devotion to the disease processes caused by the helminths, protozoa, and arthropods that infect man. Although writ...

2013 Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture: A Cognitive History of Divination in Ancient Greece.

Ancient Greeks drew advice from oracles, dreams, entrails, the movements of birds, sneezes, and myriad other sources for divination. Classicists typically study such phenomena as examples of occult religion, or for their use as a social mechanism for managing dissent and forging consensus. Ancient philosophical accounts by contrast go a longer way toward considering them seriously, on their own...

Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva

Although it is well known that Schopenhauer claimed that Buddhism closely reflected his own philosophy, this claim was largely ignored until the mid-late Twentieth century. Most commentators on Schopenhauer (with some recent exceptions) since then have mentioned his Buddhist affinities but have been quite broad and general in their treatment. I feel that any general comparison of Schopenhauer’s...