Evolution and human values / / edited by Robert Wesson and Patricia A. Williams.
Initiated by Robert Wesson, Evolution and Human Values is a collection of newly written essays designed to bring interdisciplinary insight to that area of thought where human evolution intersects with human values. The disciplines brought to bear on the subject are diverse - philosophy, psychiatry,...
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| Superior document: | Value inquiry book series ; Volume 24 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1995] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series ;
Volume 24. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Robert GINSBERG: Editorial Foreword
- Patricia A
- WILLIAMS: Preface
- Patricia A
- WILLIAMS: Introduction
- I EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS: AMALGAMATING EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND ETHICS
- Pitfalls: ONE
- Robert WESSON: The Amorality of Darwinism
- Dangers: TWO
- Howard L
- KAYE: Cultural Being or Biological Being: The Implications of Modern Biology
- Prospects: THREE
- David J
- DEPEW and Bruce H
- WEBER: Evolution, Ethics, and the Complexity Revolution
- Visions: FOUR
- John H
- CAMPBELL: The Moral Imperative of Our Future Evolution
- II EVOLVED ETHICS: EXPLAINING HUMAN MORAL NATURE AS A PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION
- Language and Ethics: FIVE
- Bernard G
- CAMPBELL: How Much in the Human Condition
- Is without Counterpart in Other Animals? Religion and Ethics: SIX
- Brant WENEGRAT: Belief in Unseen Beings: Its Evolutionary Basis and Its Effects on Morality
- III SCIENTIFIC ETHICS: COMBINING HUMAN NATURE AND ETHICS
- Intelligence and Social Policy: SEVEN
- Richard J
- HERRNSTEIN: Choosing a Demographic Future
- Altruism and Social Policy: EIGHT
- Patricia A
- WILLIAMS: The Implications of Biology for Liberalism and Conservatism
- Agency and Social Policy: NINE
- Alan GEWIRTH: Evolutionary Theory and Welfare Policy
- About the Contributors
- Index.