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Projects
Scientific Biography
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| Following from earlier projects on William Buckland and Richard Owen,
an Alexander von Humboldt project has been carried out over the last years. Its
main phase has come to a conclusion with the appearance of Alexander on
Humboldt: a Metabiography (2005). Currently, a new project on Johann
Friedrich Blumenbach is being developed. |
Science-and-Religion
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order to help close the "information gap" at the interface of science
and religion, an international, collaborative project has been started
on "Eminent Lives in Twentieth Century Science-and-Religion," funded by
the John Templeton Foundation. Its purpose is to explore the
interactions of the religious beliefs of scientists with their
practical scientific lives in a series of chapter-length biographies of
approximately 36 scientists. The project involves teaching initiatives
on science-and-religion as well as conferences. |
Biology without Darwin
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| In
continuation of earlier research into the life and work of Richard
Owen, non-Darwinian theories about the origin of life and of species
are being explored. Current emphasis is on early-nineteenth century
representatives of "Neither creation nor evolution, but the third way
in thinking about the origin of species." |
| Animal Behaviour and Human Morality |
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history of attempts to make animal behaviour speak to issues of human
morality, from the time of the professionalisation of the study of
animal behaviour to the present day, by looking at the work of a series
of major authors – scientists as well as popularizers. |
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