An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics.

Offering the first general introductory text to this subject, the timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics reflects the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated in both psychology and philosophy. The book presents students to the areas of cognitive psychology, normative ethics, an...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons 2010.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Philosopher and a Biologist Walk into a Bar ...
  • Part I: From 8220;Selfish Genes8221; to Moral Beings
  • 1 Natural Selection and Human Nature
  • 1.1 The Basic Story
  • 1.2 Some Common Misunderstandings
  • 1.3 Mother Nature as Tinkerer
  • 1.4 Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature
  • 1.5 An Evolved Mental Tool-Box
  • 1.6 Some (More) Common Misunderstandings
  • 1.7 Conclusion
  • 2 The (Earliest) Roots of Right
  • 2.1 Together We Stand?
  • 2.2 Inclusive Fitness and the 8220;Genes-Eye8221; Point of View
  • 2.3 Love Thy Neighbor 8211; But Love Thy Family First
  • 2.4 False Positives and Core Systems
  • 2.5 A Quick Note on 8220;Altruism8221;
  • 2.6 Reciprocal Altruism
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • 3 The Cavemans Conscience: The Evolution of Human Morality
  • 3.1 What Makes Moral Creatures Moral
  • 3.2 The Evolution of Morality
  • 3.3 Explaining the Nature of Moral Judgments
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • 4 Just Deserts
  • 4.1 The Ultimatum Game
  • 4.2 The Public Goods Game
  • 4.3 Winners Dont Punish
  • 4.4 The Benefits of Guilt
  • 4.5 A Lamb among Lions?
  • 4.6 An Explanation for All of Morality?
  • 4.7 Universal Morality or Universal Reason?
  • 4.8 Conclusion
  • 5 The Science of Virtue and Vice
  • 5.1 Distress Test
  • 5.2 Mind-Reading
  • 5.3 8220;Thems the Rules8221;
  • 5.4 Moral Innateness and the Linguistic Analogy
  • 5.5 Switchboards, Biases, and Affective Resonances
  • 5.6 Non-Nativist Doubts
  • 5.7 Conclusion
  • Part II: From 8220;What Is8221; to 8220;What Ought To Be8221;
  • 6 Social Harmony: The Good, the Bad, and the Biologically Ugly
  • 6.1 From the Great Chain of Being, to the Tree of Life, to Morality
  • 6.2 Uprooting the Tree of Life
  • 7 Humes Law
  • 7.1 Deductively Valid Arguments
  • 7.2 You Cant Get Out What You Dont Put In
  • 7.3 8220;Of the Last Consequence8221;
  • 7.4 Blocking the Move from Might to Right
  • 7.5 Darwinism and Preserving the Human Species
  • 7.6 Conclusion
  • 8 Moores Naturalistic Fallacy
  • 8.1 The Open Question Test
  • 8.2 Failing the Open Question Test: Desiring to Desire
  • 8.3 Failing the Open Question Test: Spencer
  • 8.4 Failing the Open Question Test: Wilson
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • 9 Rethinking Moore and Hume
  • 9.1 Some Preliminary Doubts about the Open Question Test
  • 9.2 What Things Mean vs. What Things Are
  • 9.3 Implications for Social Darwinism
  • 9.4 Forays across the Is/Ought Gap: Searle
  • 9.5 Forays across the Is/Ought Gap: Rachels
  • 9.6 Conclusion
  • 10 Evolutionary Anti-Realism: Early Efforts
  • 10.1 This Is Your Brain on God
  • 10.2 Preliminaries
  • 10.3 Wilson
  • 10.4 The Argument from Idiosyncrasy
  • 10.5 The Argument from Redundancy
  • 10.6 Causation, Justification, and ... a Rotting Corpse
  • 10.7 Conclusion
  • 11 Contemporary Evolutionary Anti-Realism
  • 11.1 Napoleon Pills
  • 11.2 A Darwinian Dilemma
  • 11.3 Conclusion
  • 12 Options for the Evolutionary Realist
  • 12.1 Option 1: Learning Right from Wrong
  • 12.2 Option 2: Response Dependency
  • 12.3 Option 3: Virtue Ethics Naturalized
  • 12.4 Option 4: Moral Constructivism
  • 12.5 Objections to the Realist Options
  • 12.6 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

Ejemplares similares