Huxley, Cosmic Evolution, and Gaukroger

To the many new readers, welcome! Most of my posts are rather nerdy about political theory, history and philosophy of science, and what is known as ‘meta-philosophy.’ Usually, they have non-trivial number of typos and other infelicities; I try to copy-edit my pieces later in the day, so if you ever wish to quote a Digression please do so from the Substa…