Trevor Pearce is associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the coeditor of Entangled Life: Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences and a contributor to The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics and The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead. His articles have been published in HOPOS, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and many other publications.

• List of Tables and FiguresAbbreviations of Manuscript SourcesAbbreviations of Scholarly EditionsNote to the ReaderIntroductionChapter 1: The Metaphysical Club and the Origin of SpeciesChapter 2: Products of the Environment: Spencer’s Challenge Spencerian EvolutionSpencerian PsychologySpencerian SociologyChapter 3: Evolution at School: Educating a New Generation Evolution in CollegeEvolution in Graduate SchoolTeaching EvolutionChapter 4: “Hegelianism Needs to Be Darwinized”: Evolution and Idealism Hegel and EvolutionThe Organism-Environment DialecticEvolutionary StrivingsChapter 5: Weismannism Comes to America: The Factors of Evolution The Reception of WeismannPeirce and Neo-LamarckismDewey and the Spencer-Weismann DebateChapter 6: Pragmatist Ethics: Evolution, Experiment, and Social Progress Fieldwork in EthicsOrganism and Environment in Social ReformSocial Science and Social EvolutionEugenics and CivilizationChapter 7: Pragmatist Logic: Evolution, Experiment, and Inquiry The “Natural History” ApproachEvolutionary ExperimentalismConclusionAcknowledgmentsIndex

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