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Metaphysics, materialism, & the evolution of mind : early writings of Charles Darwin / transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett ; with a commentary by Howard E. Gruber.

LIBRA - Rare QH31.D2 A25 1980 Adams copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, author.
Contributor:
Barrett, Paul H., translator, annotator.
Gruber, Howard E., commentator for written text.
Gruber, Howard E.
University of Chicago. Press, publisher.
Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles.
Evolution (Biology).
Metaphysics.
Materialism.
Psychology, Comparative.
Creative ability in science.
Naturalists--England--Biography.
Naturalists.
England.
Biological Evolution.
Medical Subjects:
Biological Evolution.
Psychology, Comparative.
Local Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Evolution (Biology).
Psychology, Comparative.
Creative ability in science.
Naturalists--England--Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Student Collection.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)
Physical Description:
xxiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Other Title:
Early writings of Charles Darwin
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Contents:
pt. 1. Previously unpublished manuscripts of Charles Darwin. The notebooks on man, mind and materialism. M notebook. N notebook ; Old and useless notes ; Essay on theology and natural selection ; Questions for Mr. Wynne
pt. 2. Selections from previously published writings of Charles Darwin. From the Beagle diary ; Extracts from the B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks ; A biographical sketch of an infant
Appendixes. A biographical sketch of Charles Darwin's father ; The suppressed minutes of the Plinian Society meeting of March 27, 1827.
Notes:
Phoenix books: P906
"This book originally was published in somewhat different form as book 2 of Darwin on man."--verso of title page.
"©1974 by Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett. ©1980by Paul H. Barrett. Phoenix edition 1980.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
ISBN:
0226136590
9780226136592
OCLC:
6378973

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