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Historical Case Study in Philosophical Conversation: J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) & Julian Huxley’s (1887-1975) Social Values in a Scientific Worldview</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bolder;">Abstract:</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rhetoric about the meaning of empirical work in the Evolutionary Synthesis (c. 1930s-1950s) became part of the established worldview of that era bringing
scientific thought to bear on policy issues concerning the management of humanity’s evolutionary future. Julian Huxley (e.g., 1912, 1923, 136, 1942, 1962) and JBS Haldane (e.g., 1923, 1931, 1932a, 1932b, 1935) agreed that the promise of T.H. Morgan’s genetics
in the early 1900s was not only the alleviation of disease, but also the ability to harness control of human evolution through artificial insemination by “Great Men.”
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">?</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They disagreed, however,
over evolution’s progress, perfection, and the inevitable degeneration of humanity. Their exchanges are relevant to more recent discussions on progress and degeneration in the evolutionary sciences by intellectual historians (e.g., Bowler 1989, Provine 1983,
Ruse 1996, Herring 2018).</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">?</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I
contend that Huxley and Haldane’s conversations shape the penultimate chapter of Huxley’s 1942
<i>Evolution: The Modern Synthesis</i>, a book coining the name of that era. That is, Haldane serves as a shadow author for that book constructing the fate of humanity’s evolutionary future as the backbone of the Synthesis. My argument will unfold in narrative
structure tracing the conversation through their published works and correspondence. While sometimes scientific knowledge used to support ideologies about social reform derived from their evolutionary perspectives, social values infused Huxley and Haldane’s
technical conversations of what was at stake during this significant turning point in evolution’s intellectual history. The analysis will be informed by existing philosophical literature on values-as-evidence approaches (e.g., Anderson 2004, 2006, Goldenberg
2015, Clough 2020, Millstein 2023).</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Alison McConwell's short introduction video. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQSjcrU9M0&t=9s" id="OWA6e5dcdfc-37af-7632-cd47-8980a4cedd9f" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="3" style="margin: 0px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQSjcrU9M0&t=9s</a></span></p>
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