jan“…read superficially, Darwin’s ideas can indeed tip into a vision of “mindless, purposeless algorithmic” selection—a view popularized by several late-twentieth-century biologists and philosophers (eg, Dennett, Dawkins). … Yet Darwin’s own texts, especially when read in the context of thinkers like Whitehead or Peirce, open onto the possibility that teleology is not an external imposition but a creative principle intrinsic to living organisms…”<br>—Matthew Segall, Hans Jonas' "The Phenomenon of Life”: A dialogue with Timothy Jackson about Jonas' treatment of Darwinism<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/darwin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darwin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/dennet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dennet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/dawkins" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dawkins</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/whitehead" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitehead</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/peirce" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peirce</a>