Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

4/1/1972 - 8/31/1972

Funding Totals

$8,628.00 (approved)
$8,628.00 (awarded)


Chance and Design in Darwin and Neo-Darwinian

FAIN: RO-11145-72

University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)
Edward Manier (Project Director: April 1972 to present)

To determine the meaning of "chance" and "design" as used currently and by Darwin, in order to illuminate sociol-cultural conditions of conceptual and theoretical change and metaphysical or ontological significance of scientific theories.