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    Analogy and technology in Darwin's vision of nature.John F. Cornell - 1984 - Journal of the History of Biology 17 (3):303-344.
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    God's magnificent law: The bad influence of theistic metaphysics on Darwin's estimation of natural selection.John F. Cornell - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (3):381-412.
    It is natural for us — living after the Darwinian Revolution and the neo-Darwinian synthesis — to consider the adoption of evolution by natural selection as unconditionally rational, because it now seems the best theory or explanation of many phenomena. Nonetheless, if we take historical inquiry seriously, as allowing us to probe into the ground of our knowledge, the roots of even this “rational” Darwinism might be unearthed. Darwinian doctrine betrays a deceptive desire for unity and simplicity of principle, and (...)
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    A Parable of Scandal: Speculations about the Wheat and the Tares in Matthew 13.John F. Cornell - 1998 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 5 (1):98-117.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A PARABLE OF SCANDAL: SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE WHEAT AND THE TARES IN MATTHEW 13 John F. Cornell St. John's College, NM I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of die world" (Matthew 13:35) The title ofone of René Girard's path-breaking books, Things Hidden since the Foundation ofthe World, is of course drawn from this passage. Few scholarly writings compare to (...)
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    From creation to evlution: Sir William Dawson and the idea of design in the nineteenth century.John F. Cornell - 1983 - Journal of the History of Biology 16 (1):137-170.
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    Faustian phenomena: Teleology in Goethe's interpretation of plants and animals.John F. Cornell - 1990 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (5):481-492.
    von Goethe was a daring and wide-ranging biologist as well as a great playwright. His work was a whole: for him, theory and theatre were both based on keen observation of life. Even ‘Faustian’ striving, the blind upward urge of life, can be found in significant details of organisms and their evolution, according to Goethe. Such observations cannot be dismissed as sheer poetry. On the contrary, his teleology provides a broad empirical background for the organismic approach in bio-medical science, while (...)
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    Promethean Metaphysics: The Idea of a More Perfect Being in Descartes's Discourse on Method.John F. Cornell - 2018 - Review of Metaphysics 72 (1):77-99.
    The proofs of the existence of God in part 4 of Descartes’s Discourse on Method may yet surprise us. These arguments appear to be crafted with such ambiguity that their deeper import has rarely been suspected. This essay proposes that, in spite of the text’s conventional appearance, Descartes exposes the error of scholastic metaphysics, namely, that it mistakes the perfectibility of the human mind for a transcendent perfect being. Superficially, the thinker’s “idea of a more perfect being” serves to ground (...)
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    (1 other version)The JHB bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Ronald Rainger, John F. Cornell, James J. Bono, Pietro Corsi & William J. Haas - 1985 - Journal of the History of Biology 18 (3):439-446.
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    The J.H.B. Bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, A. R. S., John T. Edsall, Muriel L. Blaisdell & John F. Cornell - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (2):281-287.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Philip J. Pauly, John F. Cornell & Joy Harvey - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (3):423-430.
  10. University Press, 1983), xii+ 301 pp., illus., $25.00." The only places I have ever been that truly appreciated the power and subtlety of Descartes were seminars whose participants were mature neuroanatomists, psychiatrists, and pyschophysiological clini-cians"(p. 84n9). Richard Carter's Descartes speaks his own language. [REVIEW]John F. Cornell - 1985 - Journal of the History of Biology 18 (3).