When1: 1863
When2: 1910
Who: Thomas Henry Huxley [Huxley, Thomas Henry]
What: biologist/paleontologist/philosopher
Where: England
works\ Man's Place in Nature [1863]; Lessons in Elementary Physiology [1866]; Animal Automatism and Other Essays [1884]; Agnosticism [1893]; Methods and Results [1910]
Detail: He lived 1825 to 1895, was evolutionary theorist, and promoted and defended Darwin's theory.
Epistemology
People cannot know the Absolute.
Ethics
It is immoral to believe if one cannot justify the belief from what one knows.
Mind
Animals are machines but are conscious {conscious automata}. Consciousness does not cause anything {epiphenomenalism, Huxley}.
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