Elliot Sober's guest appearances

Elliot Sober

Darwin or Design

The Darwin 2009 Festival

Sean Carroll

Richard Dawkins

John Davison

Massimo Pigliucci

Steve Fuller

David Livingstone

Scott Turner

Mike Behe

James Shapiro

Georgia Purdom

Terry Molloy

Denyse O'Leary

Ryan Nichols

Guillermo Gonzalez

Angus Menuge

OwlTail

Philosophical implications of Darwin's theory of evolution        Professor Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Summary: What are the philosophical implications of Darwin's theory of evolution?        Do they show that there is no God, that materialism is true, and that ethics is a matter of opinion, not fact? Here I think we need to remember what the biochemist Jacques Monod said in another context: 'any confusion between the ideas suggested by science and science itself must be carefully avoided'. In this connection, I'll discuss Darwin's theory and its relation to what is now called methodological naturalism.

Philosophical implications of Darwin's theory of evolution<br>        Professor Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Summary: What are the philosophical implications of Darwin's theory of evolution?<br>        Do they show that there is no God, that materialism is true, and that ethics is a matter of opinion, not fact? Here I think we need to remember what the biochemist Jacques Monod said in another context: 'any confusion between the ideas suggested by science and science itself must be carefully avoided'. In this connection, I'll discuss Darwin's theory and its relation to what is now called methodological naturalism.

Elliot Sober, Darwin's universal impact, Mon July 6

In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Elliot Sober. Dr Sober has taught at University of Wisconsin Madison since 1974. He is currently Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and a William Vilas Research Professor. His research is in philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature of Selection -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (MIT Press, 1984; 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993), Reconstructing the Past --  Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy of Biology (Westview Press, 1993), &gt;From a Biological Point of View -- Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and, most recently (with David Sloan Wilson) Unto Others -- The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1998).

Elliot Sober, ID and the Philosophy of Science