On Mon, 20 May 2002 17:58:08 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> Justin Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Sad news...
> > >
> > >At 3:33 PM -0400 5/20/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote:
> > >
> > >>BOSTON Biologist and Harvard University professor Stephen Jay
> Gould
> > >>has died, his assistant says
> >
> > Irreplaceable--a terrible loss to science, to American
> intellectual life, to
> > the left, and to the English language. Those in power sat less
> easy because
> > of him. A higher tribute I cannot imagine.
> >
>
> Yes. His discussions of probability and of contingency became major
> elements of my own thought.
I recall that a few years ago there was an editorial in Science & Society concerning the implications of Gould's discussions of probability and contingency for the materialist conception of history.
Jim F.
>
> Carrol
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