Review of Paul Sheldon Davies, Subjects of the World: Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature [Book Review]

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10) (2009)
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A critical review of what I see as a controversial interpretation of the nature and aims of Darwin’s rhetorical strategy and a narrow and controversial naturalist manifesto.

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