Robert J. Richards

Robert J. Richards
Born	1942
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Chicago University of Nebraska–Lincoln St. Louis University
Known for	History of Darwinian evolution
Spouse	Barbara
Scientific career
Fields	History of science Philosophy of science
Institutions	University of Chicago
Website	http://home.uchicago.edu/~rjr6/

Robert J. Richards (born 1942) 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. ^[1]

He has won several awards, including the Gordon J. Laing Award, the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the Pfizer Award, the George Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society and the Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press and earned a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. ^[1] Richards earned two PhDs: one in the History of Science from the University of Chicago and another in Philosophy from St. Louis University. ^[1]

Books

• Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species (edited with Michael Ruse) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). ISBN   978-0-521-87079-5
• Darwinian Heresies (edited with Abigail Lustig and Michael Ruse) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). ISBN   0521815169
• Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (University of Chicago Press, 1987). ISBN   0226711994 ^[2]
• The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory (University of Chicago Press, 1992). ISBN   0226712028
• The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (University of Chicago Press, 2002). ISBN   0226712109
• The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2008). ISBN   9780226712147 ^[3]
• Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

References

1. Richards, Robert (2013). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Chicago . Retrieved February 17, 2013.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Herbert, Sandra (1989). "Reviewed work: Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior by Robert J. Richards". Isis. 80 (1): 165–167. doi:10.1086/354982. JSTOR   234407.
3. Weikart, Richard (2009). "Review of The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards" (PDF). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 45 (3): 297–299. doi:10.1002/jhbs.20388.

External links

• Robert J. Richards at the University of Chicago
• https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/35/