Philosophy after Darwin : : Classic and Contemporary Readings / / ed. by Michael Ruse.

• MitwirkendeR: Arnhart, Larry,; Bernhardi, Friedrich Von,; Boyd, Craig A.,; Carnegie, Andrew,; Darwin, Charles,; De Sousa, Ronald,; Dennett, Daniel C.,; Dewey, John,; Edmonds, Bruce,; Ernst, Zach,; Fales, Evan,; Hauser, Marc D.,; Hull, David,; Huxley, Thomas Henry,; James, William,; Joyce, Richard,; Kitcher, Philip,; Kropotkin, Prince Petr,; Kuhn, Thomas,; London, Jack,; Lorenz, Konrad,; Moore, G. E.,; Nietzsche, Friedrich,; Pearson, Karl,; Peirce, Charles Sanders,; Peterson, Gregory R.,; Pinker, Steven,; Plantinga, Alvin,; Popper, Karl,; Putnam, Hilary,; Richards, Robert J.,; Ruse, Michael,; Singer, Peter,; Sober, Elliott,; Spencer, Herbert,; Sumner, William Graham,; Thompson, R. Paul,; Toulmin, Stephen E.,; Wallace, Alfred Russel,; Wilson, David Sloan,; Wilson, Edward O.,; Wright, Chauncey,
• HerausgeberIn: Ruse, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 6 line illus.

Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet today we are witnessing a major revival of interest in applying evolutionary approaches to philosophical problems. Philosophy after Darwin i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Part I. Epistemology after Darwin
• Introduction
• The Principles of Psychology
• The Gay Science
• The Evolution of Self- Consciousness
• The Fixation of Belief
• Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment
• The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy
• Part II. Ethics after Darwin
• Introduction
• The Descent of Man
• The Data of Ethics
• The Challenge of Facts
• The Gospel of Wealth
• Socialism
• Mutual Aid
• Human Progress: Past and Future
• The Right to Make War
• The Call of the Wild
• Principia Ethica: Naturalistic Ethics
• Evolution and Ethics
• Part III. The Evolution of Ideas
• Introduction
• Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Evolutionary Development of Natural Science
• Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination
• Three Challenges for the Survival of Memetics
• Altruism in Science: A Sociobiological Model of Cooperative Behavior among Scientists
• Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized: Evolutionary Epistemology
• Part IV. The Evolution of Rationality
• Introduction
• Kant's Doctrine of the A Priori in the Light of Contemporary Biology
• The View from Somewhere: A Critical Defense of Evolutionary Epistemology
• How the Mind Works
• Evolution, Thinking, and Rationality
• The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the Argument
• Darwin's Doubt, Calvin's Calvary
• Part V. Ethics and Progress
• Introduction
• On Human Nature
• A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation
• Darwinian Conservatism
• Moral Philosophy as Applied Science
• Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics
• A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics
• Part VI. The Evolution of Altruism
• Introduction
• The Liver and the Moral Organ
• Unto Others
• Is Human Morality Innate?
• Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology
• Ethics and Intuitions
• Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach
• The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical Religion
• Thomistic Natural Law and the Limits of Evolutionary Psychology
• An Evolutionary Account of Evil
• Falling Up: Evolution and Original Sin
• SOURCES AND CREDITS
• FURTHER READING
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX