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Citizenship
  
United States

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Robert Richards


Spouse
  
Barbara

Education
  
University of Chicago


Alma mater
  
University of ChicagoUniversity of Nebraska, LincolnSt. Louis University

Known for
  
History of Darwinian evolution

Residence
  
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Fields
  
History of science, Philosophy of science

Books
  
Was Hitler a Darwinia, The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst, The romantic conceptio, Darwin and the Emergen, The Meaning of Evolution

Institutions
  
University of Chicago

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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 authored or edited seven books about the history of science as well as dozens of articles.

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He has won several awards, including the Gordon J. Laing Award, 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. Richards earned two PhDs; one in the History of Science from the University of Chicago and another in Philosophy from St. Louis University.

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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
  • The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory (University of Chicago Press, 1992). ISBN 0226712028
  • The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2008). ISBN 9780226712147
  • The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (University of Chicago Press, 2002). ISBN 0226712109
  • Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

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