Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Boniolo, Giovanni

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Produktbeschreibung

How 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511239656
• Artikelnr.: 38212579

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Boniolo is Full Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Padua. He is the author of many articles and books, including Metode e rappresentaazioni del mondo. Per un'altra Filosofia della scienze and, with P. Viali, Filosofia della scienza and Strumenti per ragionare.
Gabriele de Anna is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Udine. She is the author of Realismo metafisico e rappresentazione mentale and Il pensiero filosofico e politico de Sebastiana De Apollonia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Giovanni Boniolo and Gabriele De Anna; Part I. The Limits of
Evolutionary Explanations and Justifications of Ethics: 1. Is Darwinian
metaethics possible (and if it is, is it well taken)? Michael Ruse; 2. The
descent of instinct and the ascent of ethics Giovanni Boniolo; Part II.
Methodological Issues Concerning Evolutionary Accounts of Ethics: 3. Are
human beings parts of the rest of nature? Christopher Lang, Elliot Sober
and Karen Strier; 4. The nature of resemblance, homologies in the nervous
system, and behavior correspondence Aldo Fasolo; Part III. How Biological
Results Can Help Explaining Morally Relevant Human Capacities: 5. Genetic
influences on moral capacity, what genetic mutants can teach us Giovanni
Boniolo and Paolo Vezzoni; 6. Evolutionary pharmacology, mental disorders,
and ethical behaviour Stefano Canali, Gabriele De Anna and Luca Pani; 7.
The biology of human culture and ethics: an evolutionary perspective
Stefano Parmigiani, Gabriele De Anna, Danilo Mainardi and Paola Palanza;
Part IV. How Biological Results Can Help Explain Moral Systems: 8. Biology
to ethics: an evolutionist's view of human nature Francisco Ayala; 9.
Between fragile altruism and morality: human evolution and the emergence of
normative guidance Philip Kitcher; 10. Will genomics do more for
metaphysics than Locke? Alex Rosenberg; Index.