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Author: Jane Maienschein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-02-28
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521559232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics.
Author: Giovanni Boniolo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-03
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1139458418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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: David Owen Brink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-02-24
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780521359375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA systematic analysis considers the objectivity of ethics, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalist worldview and its role in a person's rational lifespan.
Author: Philip Clayton
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2004-08-04
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780802826954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCertain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike, Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive approach to an often divisive debate.
Author: Martin Mahner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 3662033682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. The authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and the philosophy of biology from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables the clarification of many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. This book will be of interest both to life scientists and philosophers.
Author: Larry Arnhart
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998-04-02
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0791495302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature. Defending a conception of "Darwinian natural right" based on the claim that the good is the desirable, the author argues that there are at least twenty natural desires that are universal to all human societies because they are based in human biology. The satisfaction of these natural desires constitutes a universal standard for judging social practice as either fulfilling or frustrating human nature, although prudence is required in judging what is best for particular circumstances. The author studies the familial bonding of parents and children and the conjugal bonding of men and women as illustrating social behavior that conforms to Darwinian natural right. He also studies slavery and psychopathy as illustrating social behavior that contradicts Darwinian natural right. He argues as well that the natural moral sense does not require religious belief, although such belief can sometimes reinforce the dictates of nature.
Author: Eugene C. Hargrove
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, the author examines the history of ideas that has produced the conflict between Western environmentalism and other Western traditions.
Author: James Davison Hunter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0300196288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E. O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haidt, and Joshua Greene is only the newest manifestation of that quest. Though claims for its accomplishments are often wildly exaggerated, this new iteration has been no more successful than its predecessors. But rather than giving up in the face of this failure, the new moral science has taken a surprising turn. Whereas earlier efforts sought to demonstrate what is right and wrong, the new moral scientists have concluded, ironically, that right and wrong don't actually exist. Their (perhaps unwitting) moral nihilism turns the science of morality into a social engineering project. If there is nothing moral for science to discover, the science of morality becomes, at best, a feeble program to achieve arbitrary societal goals. Concise and rigorously argued, Science and the Good is a definitive critique of a would-be science that has gained extraordinary influence in public discourse today and an exposé of that project's darker turn.
Author: Nicolas Baumard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0190210222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelops further John Rawls' intuition that our sense of justice is rooted in our evolutionary past and presents a new theory of morality based on evolutionary biology.
Author: Jane Maienschein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-03-13
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521551007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of new essays focuses on the connection between biology and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks such questions as whether humans are innately selfish, and whether there are particular facets of human nature that bear directly on social practices. This is the first book to offer this historical perspective on the relation of biology and ethics, and has been written by some of the leading figures in the history and philosophy of science, whose work stands very much at the cutting edge of these disciplines.
