Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary ethics / edited by Michael Ruse, Florida State University, Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Ruse, Michael
• Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942-

Description

ix, 331 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolutionary ethics as well as current debates in the subject, examining first the claims of supporters and then the responses of their critics. Topics covered include social Darwinism, moral realism, and debunking arguments. Clearly written and structured, the book guides readers through the arguments on both sides, and emphasises the continuing relevance of evolutionary theory to our understanding of ethics today"--

Subjects

• Aufsatzsammlung
• Ethics, Evolutionary
• SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
• Ethik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-316) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards -- Part I. Historical. 1. Ethics, evolution and the a priori : Ross on Spencer and the French sociologists / Hallvard Lillehammer ; 2. Nietzsche's rejection of nineteenth-century evolutionary ethics / Jeffrey O'Connell ; 3. American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics / Trevor Pearce ; 4. Social Darwinism and market morality : a modern-day view / Naomi Beck ; 5. The path to the present / Abraham H. Gibson -- Part II. For Evolutionary Ethics. 6. Darwinian evolutionary ethics / Michael Ruse ; 7. Human morality : from an empirical puzzle to a metaethical puzzle / Richard Joyce ; 8. Evolution and the epistemological challenge to moral realism / Justin Horn ; 9. Evolutionary naturalism and valuation / Richard A. Richards ; 10. Evolutionary ethics : a theory of moral realism / Robert J. Richards ; 11. Moral mismatch and abolition / Ben Fraser -- Part III. Against Debunking Arguments. 12. Moral realism and evolutionary debunking arguments / Russ Shafer-Landau ; 13. Why Darwinism does not debunk objective morality / William J. FitzPatrick ; 14. Debunking arguments : mathematics, logic, and modal security / Justin Clarke-Doane ; 15. Evolution and the missing link (in debunking arguments) / Uri D. Leibowitz and Neil Sinclair ; 16. Better than our nature? : Evolution and moral realism, justification and progress / Michael Vlerick -- Part IV. Elaborations. 17. Darwinian ethics : biological individuality and moral relativism / Frédéric Bouchard ; 18. Evolutionary psychology, feminist critiques thereof, and the naturalistic fallacy / Lynn Hankinson Nelson ; 19. A theological evaluation of evolutionary ethics / Michael L. Peterson.

Call Number

JFF 17-1857

ISBN

• 9781107132955
• 1107132959
• 9781107589605
• 1107589606

LCCN

2017022401

OCLC

986237281

Title

The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary ethics / edited by Michael Ruse, Florida State University, Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-316) and index.

Added Author

Ruse, Michael, editor.

Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 17-1857