Darwin
Lewens, Tim
Darwin - London Routledge 2006 - xii,290p. - Routledge philosophers .
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.
9780415346382
2006014463
Darwin, Charles 1809-1882.
B1623 / .L49 2006
192 / LE-D
Darwin - London Routledge 2006 - xii,290p. - Routledge philosophers .
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.
9780415346382
2006014463
Darwin, Charles 1809-1882.
B1623 / .L49 2006
192 / LE-D