Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical IntroductionHuman Nature After Darwin is an original investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, also providing an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems. |
Contents
The theory | 4 |
The Darwinian revolution | 11 |
The sceptics | 25 |
Scientific confidence | 26 |
The perpetual threat of overthrow | 29 |
Radical sceptics and rational bets | 32 |
Shifting goalposts | 39 |
Internecine strife | 51 |
Egoism and tautology | 175 |
reductive explanations | 177 |
The end of ethics | 184 |
Particular moralities and morality in general | 185 |
God as necessary for objectivity | 188 |
Evolution as sufficient for nonobjectivity | 192 |
a detour | 195 |
Secular moral enquiry | 203 |
The battle lines | 56 |
Persisting controversy | 82 |
Implications and conditionals | 87 |
The assessment of conditionals | 91 |
Biology as destiny | 100 |
Robots and puppets | 101 |
Setting out the argument | 105 |
Assessing the argument | 108 |
Tu quoque | 117 |
Blameless puppets | 126 |
Real responsibility | 131 |
The challenge from dualism | 134 |
kinds of nonexistence | 141 |
More shifts of level and sleights of hand | 147 |
Selfish genes and moral animals | 154 |
Evolution and altruism | 155 |
Unselfish gene machines? | 157 |
True altruism? | 166 |
Onwards and upwards | 212 |
Ignorance and rationality | 213 |
Natural premises and political conclusions | 221 |
Ethics and the natural order | 242 |
Overview | 257 |
The real differences | 259 |
The implications of materialism | 260 |
The unchanged elements | 264 |
Conclusion | 268 |
Notes | 271 |
Answers to exercises | 273 |
Revision questions | 288 |
Answers to revision questions | 299 |
Suggestions for further reading | 304 |
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Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction Janet Radcliffe Richards Limited preview - 2000 |
Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction Janet Radcliffe Richards Limited preview - 2005 |
Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction Janet Radcliffe Richards Limited preview - 2005 |