Evolution and Morality : : NOMOS LII /

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

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 ret...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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