Philosophy after Darwin : : Classic and Contemporary Readings / / ed. by Michael Ruse.
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 i...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 6 line illus. |
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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