Darwin's Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection

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Preface
Introduction
	Chapter 1: Analogy in Classical Greece
	Chapter 2: Analogy in the Background to the Origin
	Chapter 3: Darwin\'s Analogical Theorising before the Origin
	Chapter 4: The \'One Long Argument\' of the Origin
	Chapter 5: An Analysis of Darwin\'s Argument by Analogy
	Chapter 6: Darwin\'s Use of Metaphor in the Origin
	Chapter 7: Rebuttals of the Revisionists
	Chapter 8: Wider Issues Concerning Darwinian Science
Chapter 1 Analogy in Classical Greece
	The First Introduction of the Concept of Analogy
		Euclid V: Analogy and Incommensurable Magnitudes
		The Alternation of Analogies
		Euclid VI: Similar Triangles and Argument by Analogy
	Archytas of Tarentum: Analogy and Definition
	Plato: The Informal Use of Analogy
	Aristotle: Two Ways of Comparing Things
	Analogy in Biology
	Argument by Analogy
	Retrospect: Analogical Models and Argument by Analogy
		Analogy within Mathematics
	Analogy beyond Mathematics
		Plato
		Aristotle
Chapter 2 Analogy in the Background to the Origin
	\'Analogie\' in the Encyclopédie
	Thomas Reid\'s Account of Argument by Analogy
	William Paley, Natural Theology
	Aristotelian Analogy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	Immanuel Kant: Strictures on the Use of Analogy
	Edward Copleston, Richard Whately and the Aristotelian Revival
	John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
Chapter 3 Darwin\'s Analogical Theorising before the Origin
	Darwin\'s Earliest Sustained Causal Four-Term Analogical Reasoning
	Articulation and Revision of a First Zoonomical System: Summer 1837 to Summer 1838
	On the Origin of the Selection Theory with No Selection Analogy
	Adding an Analogy without Subtracting Any Theory
	From the 1842 Sketch and Beyond
	Darwin\'s Analogy before the Origin
Chapter 4 The \'One Long Argument\' of the Origin
	The Elements and Their Integrations
	The First of Three Chapter Clusters (I-IV)
	The Second Cluster (V-VIII) and the Third (IX-XIII)
	Selection: From Chapters I to IV
	A Comprehensive Causal-Explanatory Complex
	Extinction, Branching and Divergence
	The Causal-Explanatory Complex Defended and Deployed
	Explaining Resemblances and Differences
Chapter 5 An Analysis of Darwin\'s Argument by Analogy
	Suspicions about Analogical Argument
	The Analogy between Artificial and Natural Selection
		Domestic Breeding
		The Struggle for Existence
		Artificial Selection as a Model for Natural Selection
		The \'Material Circumstance\'
		Can Natural Selection Be Responsible for the Formation of New Species?
		A Fortiori
		Alternating the Analogy
Chapter 6 Darwin\'s Use of Metaphor in the Origin
	Metaphor and Analogy
	Metaphors Based on Analogy
	Scientific and Poetic Uses of Metaphor
		Metaphors as Shorthand
		Metaphors as Extensible
		Metaphors and Concept Formation
	Conclusion
Chapter 7 Rebuttals of the Revisionists
	Lennox: Darwinian Thought Experiments
	Richards: When Artificial Selection Meets Natural Selection
	Gildenhuys: Selection Is One
	Burnett: Selection Is Spectral
Chapter 8 Wider Issues Concerning Darwinian Science
	Darwin and \'Aristotelian\' Traditions
	Art and Nature
	Aristotelian and Boylean Traditions
	Mechanism and Animism
	Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and an Invisible Hand
	After Darwin: Wallace and Galton
	After Darwin: Wright and Fisher
	Natural Selection as a Causal-Explanatory Theory Then and Now
	Concluding Reflections
References
Index