Philosophy after Darwin : : Classic and Contemporary Readings / / ed. by Michael Ruse.

• MitwirkendeR: Arnhart, Larry,; Bernhardi, Friedrich Von,; Boyd, Craig A.,; Carnegie, Andrew,; Darwin, Charles,; De Sousa, Ronald,; Dennett, Daniel C.,; Dewey, John,; Edmonds, Bruce,; Ernst, Zach,; Fales, Evan,; Hauser, Marc D.,; Hull, David,; Huxley, Thomas Henry,; James, William,; Joyce, Richard,; Kitcher, Philip,; Kropotkin, Prince Petr,; Kuhn, Thomas,; London, Jack,; Lorenz, Konrad,; Moore, G. E.,; Nietzsche, Friedrich,; Pearson, Karl,; Peirce, Charles Sanders,; Peterson, Gregory R.,; Pinker, Steven,; Plantinga, Alvin,; Popper, Karl,; Putnam, Hilary,; Richards, Robert J.,; Ruse, Michael,; Singer, Peter,; Sober, Elliott,; Spencer, Herbert,; Sumner, William Graham,; Thompson, R. Paul,; Toulmin, Stephen E.,; Wallace, Alfred Russel,; Wilson, David Sloan,; Wilson, Edward O.,; Wright, Chauncey,
• HerausgeberIn: Ruse, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 6 line illus.

Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet today we are witnessing a major revival of interest in applying evolutionary approaches to philosophical problems. Philosophy after Darwin is an anthology of essential writings covering the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of Darwinism, from the publication of On the Origin of Species to today's cutting-edge research.Michael Ruse presents writings by leading modern thinkers and researchers--including some writings never before published--together with the most important historical documents on Darwinism and philosophy, starting with Darwin himself. Included here are Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Henry Huxley, G. E. Moore, John Dewey, Konrad Lorenz, Stephen Toulmin, Karl Popper, Edward O. Wilson, Hilary Putnam, Philip Kitcher, Elliott Sober, and Peter Singer. Readers will encounter some of the staunchest critics of the evolutionary approach, such as Alvin Plantinga, as well as revealing excerpts from works like Jack London's The Call of the Wild. Ruse's comprehensive general introduction and insightful section introductions put these writings in context and explain how they relate to such fields as epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and ethics.An invaluable anthology and sourcebook, Philosophy after Darwin traces philosophy's complicated relationship with Darwin's dangerous idea, and shows how this relationship reflects a broad movement toward a secular, more naturalistic understanding of the human experience.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Epistemology after Darwin -- Introduction -- The Principles of Psychology -- The Gay Science -- The Evolution of Self- Consciousness -- The Fixation of Belief -- Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment -- The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy -- Part II. Ethics after Darwin -- Introduction -- The Descent of Man -- The Data of Ethics -- The Challenge of Facts -- The Gospel of Wealth -- Socialism -- Mutual Aid -- Human Progress: Past and Future -- The Right to Make War -- The Call of the Wild -- Principia Ethica: Naturalistic Ethics -- Evolution and Ethics -- Part III. The Evolution of Ideas -- Introduction -- Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme -- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- The Evolutionary Development of Natural Science -- Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination -- Three Challenges for the Survival of Memetics -- Altruism in Science: A Sociobiological Model of Cooperative Behavior among Scientists -- Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized: Evolutionary Epistemology -- Part IV. The Evolution of Rationality -- Introduction -- Kant's Doctrine of the A Priori in the Light of Contemporary Biology -- The View from Somewhere: A Critical Defense of Evolutionary Epistemology -- How the Mind Works -- Evolution, Thinking, and Rationality -- The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the Argument -- Darwin's Doubt, Calvin's Calvary -- Part V. Ethics and Progress -- Introduction -- On Human Nature -- A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation -- Darwinian Conservatism -- Moral Philosophy as Applied Science -- Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics -- A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics -- Part VI. The Evolution of Altruism -- Introduction -- The Liver and the Moral Organ -- Unto Others -- Is Human Morality Innate? -- Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology -- Ethics and Intuitions -- Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach -- The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical Religion -- Thomistic Natural Law and the Limits of Evolutionary Psychology -- An Evolutionary Account of Evil -- Falling Up: Evolution and Original Sin -- SOURCES AND CREDITS -- FURTHER READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX