Evolutionary Ethics And Contemporary Biology

Author : Giovanni Boniolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458418
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology written by Giovanni Boniolo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Giovanni Boniolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511242212
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology written by Giovanni Boniolo and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802826954
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Ethics written by Philip Clayton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike, Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive approach to an often divisive debate.

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791420287
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues in Evolutionary Ethics written by Paul Thompson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004463852
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Human Values written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Matthew H. Nitecki
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438414773
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Ethics written by Matthew H. Nitecki and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Lawrence Farber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520920972
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics written by Paul Lawrence Farber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-10-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : R. Paul Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107027012
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Biology written by R. Paul Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the philosophical and biological richness of twenty-first-century evolution: its concepts, methods, structure and religious implications.

Author : Francisco J. Ayala
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128037318
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Explanation, Ethics and Aesthetics written by Francisco J. Ayala and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Jane Maienschein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521559232
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology and the Foundations of Ethics written by Jane Maienschein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics.