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‘The Concept of Evolution’: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Antony Flew
Affiliation:
University of Keele.

Abstract

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1966

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References

page 70 note 1 Philosophy, Vol. XL, No. 151 (01 1965)Google Scholar. The page references given in brackets in the text are to this article.

page 70 note 2 ‘The Structure of Darwinism’ in New Biology 28 (Penguin Books: Harmonds-worth and Baltimore, 1959).Google Scholar

page 70 note 3 Ibid., p. 41.

page 71 note 1 Quoted, ibid., p. 30.

page 72 note 1 Ibid., pp. 33–35.

page 72 note 2 See, for the development of this decisive falsification, Hook, Sidney, The Hero in History (Beacon Press; Boston, 1943).Google Scholar

page 74 note 1 Flew, , loc. cit. passim.Google Scholar

page 74 note 2 Ibid., pp. 26–29, compare ‘The Structure of Malthus' Population Theory’ in Baumrin, B. (Editor) Philosophy of Science: the Delaware Seminar, Vol. I (John Wiley: New York, 1963).Google Scholar

page 74 note 3 See, for instance, my Hume's Philosophy of Belief (Routledge and Kegan Paul: London, 1961), Chapter VIII.Google Scholar

page 75 note 1 I wish to acknowledge here the help given me by my colleague Dr K, Goodway of the Department of Biology in the University of Keele. He is, however, not responsible for my mistakes.