Robert J. Richards (born 1942) is an author and the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the

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. He has written or edited seven books about the history of science as well as dozens of articles. He has won several awards, including the Gordon J. Laing Award, the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the

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, the

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from the

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and the Laing Prize from the

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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.

Books

*''Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species'' (edited with

Michael Ruse Michael Escott Ruse (21 June 1940 – 1 November 2024) was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution contr ...

) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). *''Darwinian Heresies'' (edited with Abigail Lustig and Michael Ruse) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). *''Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior'' (University of Chicago Press, 1987). *''The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory'' (University of Chicago Press, 1992). *''The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe'' (University of Chicago Press, 2002). *''The Tragic Sense of Life:

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and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought'' (University of Chicago Press, 2008). *''Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory'' (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

References

External links

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* https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/35/ 1942 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Charles Darwin biographers Historians of Germany University of Chicago faculty University of Chicago alumni Saint Louis University alumni Living people American historians of science American male non-fiction writers {{US-sci-historian-stub