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SUMMARY:Lucas McGranahan: "Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation"
DESCRIPTION:Lucas McGranahan: “Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation” \nThursday November 20\, 2:00 – 3:45 pm\nCrown 208\, UC Santa Cruz \nAbstract\nWilliam James presages twentieth-century Neo-Darwinism in his physiological approach to\nmental life\, his early repudiation of the inheritance of acquired characteristics\, and his\ncreative extension of the concepts of variation and selection to a variety of non-biological\ndomains. Indeed\, James was the first ‘double-barreled’ Darwinian psychologist in that he\nwas the first to explain individual learning and phylogenetic mental evolution in terms of\nanalogous processes of variation and selection. However\, the chief lessons of Darwinism\nfor James were not the materialism\, mechanism\, or reductionism of later Neo-Darwinism\,\nbut rather (1) the idea that both science and philosophy are open-ended processes of\nfallible\, inductive guesswork\, and (2) the idea of consciousness as an evolved and\nefficacious ‘fighter for ends.’ In short\, Darwinism for James signals a world that is both\ntheoretically and actually ‘in the making\,’ with the individual as an active participant. \nBio\nLucas McGranahan is an independent scholar and nonprofit professional living in Oakland\,\nCalifornia. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Wisconsin\,\nMadison\, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In\n2011 he won the Douglas Greenlee Prize for best paper by an early-career scholar from\nthe Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy\, and he is the recipient of\nmultiple teaching honors from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He has published\non evolutionary theory and pragmatism in The Pluralist.
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