- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
Kansas on My Mind
Kansas on My Mind
- Chapter:
- (p.40) 5 Kansas on My Mind
- Source:
- Frog Pond Philosophy
- Author(s):
Strachan Donnelley
, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter contrasts travel and outdoor activities in the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain areas with the ongoing cultural debate over the teaching of Darwinian evolution in public schools. The experience of nature and the tools of reason offered by a pluralistic and inquisitive intellectual orientation are seen as an antidote to a polarizing dogmatism. And public education must be equipped to provide the next generation with ecological literacy.
Keywords: evolution, science education, pluralism, dogmatism, ecological literacy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
