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- position is also called Panglossianism which became an term for excessive, even stupendous, optimism. The phrase "panglossian pessimism" has been used[by...
- "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", is a paper...
- into biology in their 1979 paper "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Adaptationism is...
- influential 1979 paper entitled, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm", which introduced the architectural term "spandrel" into evolutionary...
- predates evolutionary thinking— and was sometimes criticized for its "Panglossian" excesses (e.g., by Bateson or Haldane), concerns about the role of adaptationism...
- wide-ranging liberal consensus. At times this might lead to a kind of Panglossian world view where every fetishist has his "fetishera ... for every man...
- "spandrel", in an influential 1979 paper, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme." "Spandrels" were...
- situation in Accelerando as dire: In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening. Most of humanity...
- DC (1987). "Reprint of Intentional systems in cognitive ethology: The Panglossian paradigm defended (to p. 260)". The Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 6...
- criticised. Primary among these is Leibnizian optimism (sometimes called Panglossianism after its fictional proponent), which Voltaire ridicules with descriptions...