Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy after Darwin : classic and contemporary readings / edited by Michael Ruse.

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ruse, Michael

Description

ix, 580 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

'Philosophy after Darwin' is an anthology of writing covering the philosophical implications of Darwinism, including the work of Nietzsche, Huxley, Moore, Dewey, Popper, Putnam, Singer & others.

Subject

• Darwin, Charles > Rezeption
• Ethics
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Philosophy
• Evolutionary psychology
• Morale
• Théorie de la connaissance
• Philosophie
• Psychologie évolutionniste
• ethics (philosophy)
• epistemology
• philosophy
• Evolutionstheorie
• Erkenntnistheorie
• Ethik
• Evolutionspsychologie
• Darwinismus > Philosophie
• Philosophie > Darwinismus
• Philosophie > Evolution
• Evolution > Philosophie
• Darwinismus
• Ethik
• Erkenntnistheorie
• Evolution
• Ethics
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Philosophy
• Evolutionary psychology
• Etik
• Kunskapsteori
• Filosofi
• Evolutionspsykologi
• Evolutionspsychologie

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The principles of psychology / Herbert Spencer -- The gay science / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The evolution of self-consciousness / Chauncey Wright -- The fixation of belief / Charles Sanders Peirce -- Great men, great thoughts, and the environment / William James -- The influence of Darwinism on philosophy / John Dewey -- The descent of man / Charles Darwin -- The data of ethics / Herbert Spencer -- The challenge of facts / William Graham Sumner -- The gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie -- Socialism / Karl Pearson -- Mutual aid / Prince Petr Kropotkin -- Human progress: past and future / Alfred Russel Wallace -- The right to make war / Friedrich Von Bernhardi -- The call of the wild / Jack London -- Principia ethica: naturalistic ethics / G.E. Moore -- Evolution and ethics / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Darwinism as a metaphysical research programme / Karl Popper -- The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn -- The evolutionary development of natural science / Stephen Toulmin -- Memes and the exploitation of imagination / Daniel C. Dennett -- Three challenges for the survival of memetics / Bruce Edmonds -- Altruism in science: a sociobiological model of cooperative behavior among scientists / David Hull -- Why reason cant be naturalized: evolutionary epistemology / Hilary Putnam -- Kants doctrine of the a priori in the light of contemporary biology / Konrad Lorenz -- The view from somewhere: a critical defense of evolutionary epistemology / Michael Ruse -- How the mind works / Steven Pinker -- Evolution, thinking, and rationality / Ronald De Sousa -- The evolutionary argument against naturalism: an initial statement of the argument / Alvin Plantinga -- Darwin's doubt, Calvin's Calvary / Evan Fales -- On human nature / Edward O. Wilson -- A Darwinian left : politics, evolution, and cooperation / Peter Singer -- Darwinian conservatism / Larry Arnhart -- Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson -- Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics / Philip Kitcher -- A defense of evolutionary ethics / Robert J. Richards -- The liver and the moral organ / Marc Hauser -- Unto others / Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson -- Is human morality innate? / Richard Joyce -- Game theory in evolutionary biology / Zach Ernst -- Ethics and intuitions / Peter Singer -- Evolution and ethics: the sociobiological approach / Michael Ruse -- Thomistic natural law and the limits of evolutionary psychology / Craig A. Boyd -- An evolutionary account of evil / R. Paul Thompson -- Falling up: evolution and original sin / Gregory R. Peterson.

ISBN

• 9780691135533
• 0691135533
• 9780691135540
• 0691135541

LCCN

2009003922

OCLC

• 302099517
• SCSB-12128404

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library