Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology
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Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology
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Author : Giovanni Boniolo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-03
Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology written by Giovanni Boniolo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-03 with Science categories.
How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other topics. They offer deep insights into the origin and purpose of human moral capacities and of moral systems.
Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology
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Author : Giovanni Boniolo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology written by Giovanni Boniolo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Philosophy categories.
How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other topics. They offer deep insights into the origin and purpose of human moral capacities and of moral systems.
Evolution And Ethics
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Author : Philip Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2004-08-04
Evolution And Ethics written by Philip Clayton and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-04 with Medical categories.
Certain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike, Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive approach to an often divisive debate.
Evolution And Human Values
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-07
Evolution And Human Values written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Philosophy categories.
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, behavioral science, biology, anthropology, psychology, biochemistry, and sociology. Yet, as organized by co-editor Patricia A. Williams, the volume falls coherently into three related sections. Entitled Evolutionary Ethics, the first section brings contemporary research to an area first explored by Herbert Spencer. Evolutionary ethics looks to the theory of evolution by natural selection to find values for human living. The second section, Evolved Ethics, discusses the evolution of language and religion and their impact on moral thought and feeling. Evolved ethics was partly Charles Darwin's subject in The Descent of Man. The last section bears the title Scientific Ethics. A nascent field, scientific ethics asks about the evolution of human nature and the implications of that nature for ethical theory and social policy. Together, the essays collected here provide important contemporary insights into what it is - and what it may be - to be human.
Issues In Evolutionary Ethics
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Author : Paul Thompson
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1995-01-13
Issues In Evolutionary Ethics written by Paul Thompson and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-13 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectual struggle that took place within the framework of Darwinism from its inception up to the work of G. C. Williams, W. D. Hamilton, R. D. Alexander, A. L. Trivers, E. O. Wilson, R. Dawkins, and others. The contemporary section discusses ethics within the framework of evolutionary theory as enriched by the works of biologists such as those mentioned above. The issue of whether ethical practice and ethical theory can be grounded in the theory of evolution has taken a new and significant direction within the context of sociobiology and is proving to be a challenge to previous thinking. This book conveys that challenge.
The Temptations Of Evolutionary Ethics
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Author : Paul Lawrence Farber
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-10-11
The Temptations Of Evolutionary Ethics written by Paul Lawrence Farber and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-11 with Philosophy categories.
Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory. Farber describes three upsurges of enthusiasm for evolutionary ethics. The first came in the early years of mid-nineteenth century evolutionary theories; the second in the 1920s and '30s, in the years after the cultural catastrophe of World War I; and the third arrived with the recent grand claims of sociobiology to offer a sound biological basis for a theory of human culture. Unlike many who have written on evolutionary ethics, Farber considers the responses made by philosophers over the years. He maintains that their devastating criticisms have been forgotten—thus the history of evolutionary ethics is essentially one of oft-repeated philosophical mistakes. Historians, scientists, social scientists, and anyone concerned about the elusive basis of selflessness, altruism, and morality will welcome Farber's enlightening book.
Evolutionary Biology
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Author : R. Paul Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Evolutionary Biology written by R. Paul Thompson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Philosophy categories.
This volume explores the philosophical and biological richness of twenty-first-century evolution: its concepts, methods, structure and religious implications.
Evolutionary Ethics
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Author : Matthew H. Nitecki
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1993-07-16
Evolutionary Ethics written by Matthew H. Nitecki and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-07-16 with Religion categories.
This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations. The book is divided into four sections. The first is an historical introduction to the origin of evolutionary ethics, showing how different evolutionary ethics was a hundred years ago, and how distant Huxley is from most of us now. The second section argues for a sociobiological interpretation of evolutionary ethics. The third section presents the view opposite to that of the second section and rejects the sociobiological interpretation. The fourth section deals objectively with many complex and fundamental issues from diverse perspectives.
Biology And The Foundations Of Ethics
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Author : Jane Maienschein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-02-28
Biology And The Foundations Of Ethics written by Jane Maienschein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-28 with Medical categories.
This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics.
Evolution Explanation Ethics And Aesthetics
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Author : Francisco J. Ayala
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2016-07-21
Evolution Explanation Ethics And Aesthetics written by Francisco J. Ayala and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-21 with Science categories.
Evolution, Explanation, Ethics and Aesthetics: Towards a Philosophy of Biology focuses on the dominant biological topic of evolution. It deals with the prevailing philosophical themes of how to explain the adaptation of organisms, the interplay of chance and necessity, and the recurrent topics of emergence, reductionism, and progress. In addition, the extensively treated topic of how to explain human nature as a result of natural processes and the encompassed issues of the foundations of morality and the brain-to-mind transformation is discussed. The philosophy of biology is a rapidly expanding field, not more than half a century old at most, and to a large extent is replacing the interest in the philosophy of physics that prevailed in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Few texts available have the benefit of being written by an eminent biologist who happens to be also a philosopher, as in this work. This book is a useful resource for seminar courses and college courses on the philosophy of biology. Researchers, academics, and students in evolutionary biology, behavior, genetics, and biodiversity will also be interested in this work, as will those in human biology and issues such as ethics, religion, and the human mind, along with professional philosophers of science and those concerned with such issues as whether evolution is compatible with religion and/or where morality comes from. Presents the unique perspective of a distinguished biologist with extensive experience in the field who has published much about the subject in a wide variety of journals and edited volumes Covers the philosophical issues related to evolution and biology in an approachable and readable style Includes the most up-to-date treatment of this burgeoning, exciting field within biology Provides the ideal guide for researchers, academics, and students in evolutionary biology, behavior, genetics, and biodiversity