id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ea4erwmcgrabjaw2sq6esolb6y Paul R. Thagard Darwin and Whewell 1977 4 .pdf application/pdf 2051 128 62 Charles Darwin's work was influenced by William Whewell.' However, the show this by presenting new evidence that Darwin had read Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences and then arguing that Darwin was strongly influenced by Whewell's views on consilience of inductions and true causes. Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences, and after reading J. study Whewell on Philosophy of Science." But indirect evidence that Darwin read Whewell's Philosophy is to be found in Darwin's The Variation of 4 William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, facsimile of the 2nd edn, London, theory achieves a consilience of inductions by explaining a number of different Herschel, Review of William Whewell, Hisrory of the Inductive Sciences and manner as does the theory of natural selection, the several large classes of facts Natural Selection as an Hypothesis, which, if it explained several large classes of Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. ./cache/work_ea4erwmcgrabjaw2sq6esolb6y.pdf ./txt/work_ea4erwmcgrabjaw2sq6esolb6y.txt