Darwin and Design

Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

Michael Ruse

  • Toronto Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

Preface

Introduction

1. Two Thousand Years of Design

2. Paley and Kant Fight Back

3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution

4. A Plurality of Problems

5. Charles Darwin

6. A Subject Too Profound

7. Darwinian against Darwinian

8. The Century of Evolutionism

9. Adaptation in Action

10. Theory and Test

11. Formalism Redux

12. From Function to Design

13. Design as Metaphor

14. Natural Theology Evolves

15. Turning Back the Clock

Sources and Suggested Reading

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Darwin and Design
  • A photo of the author

Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University. He is the founder and editor of the journal Biology and Philosophy, and has appeared on “Quirks and Quarks” and the Discovery Channel.