Philosophy and the Darwinian Legacy

The book explores the exclusion of Darwin's evolutionary theory from two major twentieth-century philosophical traditions: analytic philosophy and phenomenology. It examines how these frameworks, developed by figures like G. E. Moore and Edmund Husserl, dismissed Darwin's relevance, impacting theories of perception and mind. Professor Cunningham critiques existing cognitivist and Machine Functionalist theories, arguing they overlook the adaptive functions of perception and mind in an organism's survival. She proposes amendments to integrate Darwinian insights into philosophical discourse.