J. B. S. Haldane/External Links

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Includes excerpt from a Stephen Jay Gould book, Gould speaking of JBS's pluralistic synthesis of population genetics. Not just 'natural selection', as Gould interprets Haldane's writings. Gould's book: Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2002. Haldane on pp. 514-515.

A paper read to the Heretics, Cambridge, on February 4th, 1923; transcribed: Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, 10 April 1993, Physicist Shalizi on Daedalus.
A typical-level of observation by J.B.S. Haldane: "Einstein, so far from deducing an new decalogue, has contented himself with deducing the consequences to space and time themselves of their ideality. These are mostly too small to be measurable, but some, such as the deflection of light by the sun's gravitational field, are susceptible of verification, and have been verified. The majority of scientific men are now being constrained by the evidence of these experiments to adopt a very extreme form of Kantian idealism. The Kantian Ding-an-sich is an eternal four-dimensional manifold, which we perceive as space and time, but what we regard as space and what as time is more or less fortuitous."

Science and the Supernatural: A correspondence between Arnold Lunn and J. B. S. Haldane, 1931-33
If...., 1934
Human Biology and Politics, 1934
From, My Friend Mr. Leakey, 1934 (children’s story)
A Dialectical Account of Evolution, 1937
Reply to Lerner’s Is Professor Haldane’s Account of Evolution Dialectical?, 1938
Preface to Engels’ Dialectics of Nature, 1939
From The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences, 1939
Lysenko and Genetics, 1940
Why I am a Materialist, 1940
The Laws of Nature, 1941
Auld Hornie, F.R.S., 1946 (a review of C.S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy)
What is Life?, 1949