Darwin Tim Lewens
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2007.
ISBN: 0203597133
DDC: 192
LCC: B1623
Edition: (ebook) :No price
Notes:
Formerly CIP.Uk
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: a philosophical naturalist -- Dial M for metaphysics --
Darwin and darwinism -- Darwin unfolding -- Life -- Pedigree -- From
sport to science -- The beagle voyage -- London, marriage and the
notebooks -- Down and out -- Selection -- Evolution and natural
selection -- The argument for natural selection -- Darwin and Lamarck
-- Darwin's dangerous idea -- Natural selection and variation --
Selection and creativity -- Selection and population -- Natural
selection then and now -- Species -- Human nature, squid nature,
apple nature -- The tree of life -- Butchering nature -- Individuals
and kinds -- Population thinking and typological thinking -- Species
natures -- Evidence -- Science and God -- Inference to the best
explanation -- Herschel and Whewell -- Herschel and the origin --
Darwin, Whewell and Gemmules -- Natural selection and common ancestry
-- The natural selection/intelligent design debate -- Evolution with
intelligent design -- Darwin and religion -- Mind -- Squandered
riches? -- The three principles of emotional expression -- Common
ancestry -- The universality of emotional expression -- Culture and
the evolutionary approach -- The Santa Barbara school -- A single
human nature? -- The adaptive heuristic -- Darwin and Santa Barbara
-- Ethics -- Ethics from the side of natural history -- The origins
of the moral sense -- Darwins normative ethics -- Evolutionary
normative ethics -- Evolutionary meta-ethics -- Group selection --
Has evolution made us selfish? -- Knowledge -- What is knowledge? --
Empiricism -- Innate knowledge -- Evolutionary epistemology: James
and Popper -- Memes -- Cultural evolution without Memes -- Politics
-- Darwin and the right -- Degenerating society -- Social darwinism
-- Politics and human nature -- Darwin and the equality of the sexes
-- Sex differences today -- Darwin and the left -- Philosophy -- Mans
place in nature -- Hubris -- Contingency -- Progress -- Darwinian
naturalism.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition Info: (ebook) :No price
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