Robert J. Richards

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According to Wikipedia, Robert J. Richards is an author and the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has written or edited seven books about the history of science as well as dozens of articles.

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Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (1988) (892)
:Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (2008) (389)
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (2004) (374)
The Romantic Conception Of Life (2002) (276)
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought (2008) (172)
Complications of type 1 diabetes. (2010) (163)
Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb: A Historical Misunderstanding (2000) (124)
The meaning of evolution : the morphological construction and ideological reconstruction of Darwin's theory (1992) (120)
The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. (1992) (102)
Timing of Prophylactic Surgery in Prevention of Diverticulitis Recurrence: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (2002) (93)
Racial Differences in Use of Colonoscopy, Sigmoidoscopy, and Barium Enema in Medicare Beneficiaries (2002) (53)
Agenesis of the gallbladder in symptomatic adults. A case and review of the literature. (1993) (52)
Toxic megacolon associated Clostridium difficile colitis. (2010) (52)
The Cambridge companion to the "Origin of species" (2008) (47)
Is a history of tonsillectomy associated with a decreased risk of Helicobacter pylori infection? (1997) (44)
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics (2017) (44)
The Innate and the Learned: The Evolution of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinct (1974) (41)
Can the Blood Urea Nitrogen/Creatinine Ratio Distinguish Upper From Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding? (1990) (40)
Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences.Donald E. Polkinghorne (1989) (40)
Justification through biological faith: A rejoinder (1986) (39)
Influence of sensationalist tradition on early theories of the evolution of behavior. (1979) (37)
Christian Wolff's prolegomena to empirical and rational psychology: translation and commentary. (1980) (36)
Why Darwin delayed, or interesting problems and models in the history of science. (1983) (33)
An Introduction to Dynamics and Control (1979) (31)
Darwinian Heresies: Index (2004) (29)
Haeckel’s embryos: fraud not proven (2009) (28)
Management of abdominal and pelvic abscess in Crohn's disease. (2011) (28)
Was Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (2013) (27)
Darwin on mind, morals and emotions (2009) (27)
Haeckel, Embryos, and Evolution (1998) (26)
The Natural Selection Model of Conceptual Evolution (1977) (25)
Instinct and intelligence in British natural theology: Some contributions to Darwin's theory of the evolution of behavior (1981) (24)
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES (1946) (24)
Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection and Its Moral Purpose (2008) (21)
2. The Linguistic Creation of Man: Charles Darwin, August Schleicher, Ernst Haeckel, and the Missing Link in Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory (2002) (20)
A defense of evolutionary ethics (2021) (20)
Rhapsodies on a Cat-Piano, or Johann Christian Reil and the Foundations of Romantic Psychiatry (1998) (19)
Ernst Haeckel’s Alleged Anti-Semitism and Contributions to Nazi Biology (2007) (18)
Redefining treatment success in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Comprehensive targeting of core defects (2009) (18)
Lloyd Morgan's theory of instinct: from Darwinism to neo-Darwinism. (1977) (18)
Kuhn's 'Structure of scientific revolutions' at fifty : reflections on a science classic (2016) (16)
Michael Ruse's Design for Living (2004) (16)
Originating Species: Darwin on the Species Problem (2008) (16)
“Laws impressed on matter by the Creator”? The Origin and the Question of Religion (2008) (16)
Darwin's place in the history of thought: A reevaluation (2009) (15)
Finding the Optimal Multiple-test Strategy Using a Method Analogous to Logistic Regression (1996) (15)
Arguments in a Sartorial Mode, or the Asymmetries of History and Philosophy of Science (1992) (13)
Structure as Cited, Structure as Read (2016) (13)
Sengstaken‐Blakemore Tube for Control of Massive Bleeding from Gastric Varices in Hiatal Hernia (1992) (12)
Biology and the Foundation of Ethics: Darwin's Romantic Biology: The Foundation of His Evolutionary Ethics (1999) (12)
Embryology and Morphology (2008) (11)
Aristotle in the Cold War: On the Origins of Thomas Kuhn'sStructure of Scientific Revolutions (2016) (11)
Ideology and the history of science (1993) (11)
Nature is the poetry of mind, or how Schelling solved Goethe's Kantian problems (2006) (10)
Evolutionary Ethics: A Theory of Moral Realism (2017) (10)
Dutch objections to evolutionary ethics (1989) (10)
Practice All the Way Down (2016) (10)
Actinomycosis: a rare cause of vesicocolic fistula. (1989) (10)
Pneumomediastinum as a complication of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. (1991) (9)
Darwin's principles of divergence and natural selection: Why Fodor was almost right. (2012) (9)
The Theological Foundations of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (1997) (8)
James Gibson's Passive Theory of Perception: A Rejection of the Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies (1976) (7)
Responsibility for statistical analyses. (2003) (7)
What-if history of science (2015) (7)
Darwin’s Difficulties (2008) (7)
Darwinian Heresies: If This Be Heresy: Haeckel's Conversion to Darwinism (2004) (7)
The Origin of the Origin (2008) (7)
Human Morality: From an Empirical Puzzle to a Metaethical Puzzle (2017) (7)
Ernst Haeckel and the Struggles over Evolution and Religion (2005) (7)
Images of Evolution (2011) (6)
Evolution and the Epistemological Challenge to Moral Realism (2017) (6)
The personal equation in science: William James's psychological and moral uses of Darwinian theory. (1982) (6)
Debunking Arguments: Mathematics, Logic, and Modal Security (2017) (5)
THAT DARWIN AND HAECKEL WERE COMPLICIT IN NAZI BIOLOGY (2009) (5)
Thomas Kuhn and the Psychology of Scientific Revolutions (2016) (5)
The Linguistic Creation of Man (2013) (5)
Darwin Tried and True (2010) (5)
The Norton history of the human sciences (2001) (5)
The Role of Biography in Intellectual History (2017) (4)
Was Hitler a Darwinian (2013) (4)
Cheap Meat: How Factory Farming is Harming our Health, the Environment, and the Economy (2011) (4)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought: The German Reception of Darwin’s Theory, 1860–1945 (2013) (4)
The Emergence of Evolutionary Biology of Behaviour in the Early Nineteenth Century (1982) (4)
SELLARS' KANTIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE COMPATIBILITY OF FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM (1973) (4)
Why the Scientific Revolution wasn't a Scientific Revolution, and Why it Matters (2016) (4)
The Moral Grammar of Narratives in History of Biology: The Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology (2007) (4)
Why Darwinism Does Not Debunk Objective Morality (2017) (4)
Myth 11. That Darwin Worked on His Theory in Secret for Twenty Years, His Fears Causing Him to Delay Publication (2015) (4)
Nietzsche's Rejection of Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Ethics (2017) (4)
The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl (2018) (3)
Moral Realism and Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (2017) (3)
Darwin’s Botany in the Origin of Species (2008) (3)
Classification in Darwin’s Origin (2008) (3)
The Origin and Philosophy (2008) (3)
The Impact of Idealism: The impact of German Idealism and Romanticism on biology in the nineteenth century (2013) (3)
Theories of Scientific Change (1987) (3)
The Evolutionary War (2002) (2)
7. Johann Christian Reil’s Romantic Theories of Life and Mind, or Rhapsodies on a Cat-Piano (2019) (2)
American Pragmatism, Evolution, and Ethics (2017) (2)
9. Did Goethe and Schelling Endorse Species Evolution (2017) (2)
Darwin’s Principle of Divergence (2013) (2)
The Origin and Political Thought: From Liberalism to Marxism (2008) (2)
The Language of Science: A Study of the Relationship between Literature and Science in the Perspective of a Hermeneutical Ontology, with a Case Study of Darwin's The Origin of Species. Ilse N. Bulhof (1994) (2)
The Path to the Present (2017) (2)
Prevalence of previous appendectomy among patients needing gastrointestinal endoscopy. (1999) (2)
A Smoker's Paradigm (2016) (2)
Darwin's Romantic Biology (2002) (1)
Editors’ Introduction (2017) (1)
Evolutionary Naturalism and Valuation (2017) (1)
Evolutionary Psychology, Feminist Critiques Thereof, and the Naturalistic Fallacy (2017) (1)
Screening interval for colorectal cancer with colonoscopy: the long and short of it. (1997) (1)
The physician darwin. (1982) (1)
C HARLES D ARWIN , The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 2nd edition of 1874. With an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2004. Pp. lxvi+791. ISBN 0-140-43631-6. £9.99 (paperback). (2006) (1)
Romantic Biology: Carl Gustav Carus at the Edge of the Modern (2020) (1)
Materialism and Natural Events in Dewey's Developing Thought (1972) (1)
Darwinian Ethics: Biological Individuality and Moral Relativism (2017) (1)
PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM AS A COMPLICATION GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY (1991) (1)
3. Schelling: The Poetry of Nature (2019) (0)
Neanderthals need not apply (1997) (0)
3. Research in Italy and Conversion to Darwinism (2019) (0)
4. Denouement: Farewell to Jena (2019) (0)
THE THOMAS BECKET AFFAIR (2014) (0)
4. Triumph and Tragedy at Jena (2019) (0)
Screening for colorectal cancer : CTC vs . OC (2013) (0)
Philosophical Lessons from Scientific Biography (2011) (0)
COMMENT ON : COMPARISON OF THE RELATIVE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF THE ASCITIC-FLUID-TO-SERUM RATIO OF BILIRUBIN TO THE SERUM-ASCITES ALBUMIN GRADIENT. AUTHO RS' REPLY (1998) (0)
Book Review:A History of Psychology: Main Currents in Psychological Thought Thomas H. Leahey (1982) (0)
Is there a relationship between history of appendectomy and potential for gastrointestinal endoscopy (1997) (0)
Haeckel’s Embryos (2013) (0)
7. The Popular Presentation of Evolution (2019) (0)
Racial differences in usage of lower endoscopic procedures in medicare recipients (2001) (0)
Pneumothorax Complicating Diagnostic Upper Endoscopy (1999) (0)
A Theological Evaluation of Evolutionary Ethics (2017) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2017) (0)
A Premodern Synthesis Age of Goethe (0)
DIAGNOSIS OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE COLITIS. AUTHORS' REPLY (1996) (0)
5. Early Theories of Development: Blumenbach and Kant (2019) (0)
William James’ Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychological Science (1985) (0)
Does size matter: how best to see to believe? (1997) (0)
Animal psychology: a historical view: from darwin to behaviourism. (1985) (0)
A PRIMER ON THE ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE THOMAS BECKET AFFAIR (2014) (0)
14. Darwin’s Romantic Biology (2019) (0)
10. Love in a Time of War (2019) (0)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2012) (0)
Moral Mismatch and Abolition (2017) (0)
The Meaning of Evolution and the Ideological Uses of History (1992) (0)
Robert J. Richards. The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 512 pp. [dollar]39.00 (hardcover). ISBN-10: 0-226-71214-7 (2009) (0)
What-if history of science (2014) (0)
Christine Lehleiter. Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. (New Studies in the Age of Goethe.) xvi + 323 pp., figs., bibl., index. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2014. $100 (paper). ISBN 9781611486230. (2018) (0)
Substantive and Methodological Teleology in Aristotle and Some Logical Empiricists (2017) (0)
Darwin's Embryological Theory of Progressive Evolution (1992) (0)
Reason and Reverence (2007) (0)
The 2005 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture “ The Narrative Structure of Moral Judgments in History : Evolution and Nazi Biology ” By (0)
The Relation of Spencer’s Evolutionary Theory to Darwin’s (2013) (0)
8. Schelling’s Dynamic Evolutionism (2019) (0)
Book Review:Is Science Sexist? And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences Michael Ruse (1983) (0)
Life and Man in Darwin's Universe (1982) (0)
Re: Elis et al. Comparison of the Relative Diagnostic Value of the Ascitic-Fluid-to-Serum Ratio of Bilirubin to the Serum-Ascites Albumin Gradient (1998) (0)
Factors associated with survival in AIDS patients who received Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tubes (2003) (0)
Darwinian Moral Theory (2008) (0)
Sex and the Single Cell (2004) (0)
Romantics in the English Manner (2010) (0)
ANNOUNCEMENTS (1990) (0)
Darwin's Garden of Earthly Delights (2011) (0)
The Evolution of Morality and Religion.ByDonald M Broom. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.$75.00 (hardcover); $28.00 (paper). xii + 259 p; species, author, and subject indexes. ISBN: 0‐521‐82192‐4 (hc); 0‐521‐52924‐7 (pb). 2003. (2005) (0)
Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Colitis (1996) (0)
Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality.Lewis Petrinovich (1996) (0)
Notices of Books (2005) (0)
The Social Brain and the Evolution of Culture (2011) (0)
9. The Religious Response to Evolutionism: Ants, Embryos, and Jesuits (2019) (0)
2. Formation of a Romantic Biologist (2019) (0)
12. Conclusion: The History of a Life in Art and Science (2019) (0)
The Foundations of Archetype Theory in Evolutionary Biology : Kant , Goethe , and Carus (2018) (0)
Goethe's Scientific Revolution (2002) (0)
8. The Rage of the Critics (2019) (0)
Ernst Haeckel ’ s Alleged Tragic Sense of Life and Other Fantasies : a Review of (2009) (0)
9. Conclusion: Mechanism, Teleology, and Evolution (2019) (0)
Quality & Quantity: Limits of Quantification in the Sciences (2015) (0)
Darwin’s Romantic Quest (2013) (0)
Klelmeyer and the Organic Powers of Nature (2002) (0)
Paradigms and Exemplars Meet Biomedicine (2016) (0)
6. Travel to England and the Canary Islands: Experimental Justifi cation of Evolution (2019) (0)
Early repeat colonoscopy is associated with poor quality of the intial test (2003) (0)
To the Editor: (2004) (0)
Timing of prophylactic surgery for diverticulitis: A cost-effectiveness analysis (2001) (0)
The Natural History of Ideas (1992) (0)
Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Species Change (1992) (0)
Theories of Instinct Prior to the Nineteenth Century (2012) (0)
Spring Systematics Symposium Field Museum of Natural History (2016) (0)
An Intellectual History of Psychology. Daniel N. RobinsonThe Mind Unfolded: Essays on Psychology's Historic Texts. Daniel N. Robinson (1980) (0)
Evolution vs. Epigenesis in Embryogenesis (1992) (0)
Nick Hopwood. Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud. viii + 388 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. $45 (cloth). (2016) (0)
The black esophagus. (1996) (0)
1. Introduction: A Most Happy Encounter (2019) (0)
The Nature and Necessity of Cultural History of Science (1999) (0)
11. Conclusion: The Tragic Sense of Ernst Haeckel (2019) (0)
Historiographic Distinctions (1988) (0)
Chapter 12 Virtual Colonoscopy (2019) (0)
Eloge: Susan Elizabeth Abrams, 27 July 1945–29 June 2003 (2004) (0)
Book Review:The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics Paul Lawrence Farber (1995) (0)
The Theory of Evolutionary Recapitulation in the Context of Transcendental Morphology (1992) (0)
Insulin Sensitizers Versus Secretagogues as First‐Line Therapy for Diabetes: Rationale for Clinical Choice (2011) (0)
2. The Early Romantic Movement (2019) (0)
lively reference tool and as a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the cur- rent state of Darwin scholarship. Many of the essays skillfully debunk tenacious myths (2016) (0)
10. The Erotic Authority of Nature (2019) (0)
Quality & Quantity: Limits of Quantification in the Sciences (2015) (0)
Ernst Haeckel’s Scientific and Artistic Struggles (2013) (0)
5. Evolutionary Morphology in the Darwinian Mode (2019) (0)
Social Darwinism and Market Morality: A Modern-Day View (2017) (0)
The Cell in Medical Science, Volume 1 (1976) (0)

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