Evolution and Morality : : NOMOS LII / / ed. by James E. Fleming, Sanford V. Levinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arnhart, Larry,; Beckwith, Jonathan,; Bradley Kar, Robin,; Culbert, Jennifer L.,; Emens, Elizabeth F.,; Farahany, Nita A.,; Kitcher, Philip,; Lord Smail, Daniel,; McClain, Linda C.,; Pustilinik, Amanda C.,; Richards, Richard A.,; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter,
• HerausgeberIn: Fleming, James E.,; Levinson, Sanford V.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Can theories of evolution explain the development of our capacityfor moral judgment and the content of morality itself?If bad behavior punished by the criminal law is attributableto physical causes, rather than being intentional or voluntaryas traditionally assumed, what are the implications for rethinkingthe criminal justice system? Is evolutionary theoryand “nature talk,” at least as practiced to date, inherentlyconservative and resistant to progressive and feminist proposalsfor social changes to counter subordination and secureequality?In Evolution and Morality, a group of contributors from philosophy,law, political science, history, and genetics addressmany of the philosophical, legal, and political issues raisedby such questions. This insightful interdisciplinary volumeexamines the possibilities of a naturalistic ethics, the implicationsof behavioral morality for reform of the criminal law,the prospects for a biopolitical science, and the relationshipbetween nature, culture, and social engineering.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I. NATURALISTIC ETHICS -- 1. NATURALISTIC ETHICS WITHOUT FALLACIES -- 2. THE TWO FACES OF MORALITY: HOW EVOLUTIONARY THEORY CAN BOTH VINDICATE AND DEBUNK MORALITY (WITH A SPECIAL NOD TO THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF LAW) -- 3. MISSING HERITABILITY: HIDDEN ENVIRONMENT IN GENETIC STUDIES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR -- PART II. LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY -- 4. LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY -- 5. RETHINKING UNREASONABLENESS: A COMMENT ON NITA FARAHANY’S “LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY” -- 6. A CASE STUDY IN NEUROSCIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 7. SCIENCE FICTION: SOME UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS OF NITA FARAHANY’S “LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY” -- PART III. BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- 8. BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- 9. COMMENT ON LARRY ARNHART, “BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE” -- 10. ARNHART’S EXPLANATORY PLURALISM -- PART IV. NATURE, CONSERVATISM, AND PROGRESSIVISM -- 11. AGAINST NATURE -- 12. NATURE, CULTURE, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING: REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTION AND EQUALITY -- INDEX