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catalog contributor b1383087.
catalog created "c1979.".
catalog date "1979".
catalog date "c1979.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1979.".
catalog description "Bibliography: p. 215-223.".
catalog description "Does culture leave a place for human sociobiology? -- A biological-cultural compromise -- Conclusion -- SOCIOBIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. -- Theory change: replacement and reduction -- The replacement of anthropology -- Primitive war as analysed through a biological-anthropological compromise -- Biologically sympathetic anthropology -- The formal relationship between a corrected anthropology and biology -- Psychology: the problem of learning -- Psychoanalytic theory and the explanation of homosexuality -- Economics -- Sociology -- Conclusion -- SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ETHICS. -- Why are we ethical? -- Evolutionary ethics -- Wilson's attack on intuitionism -- Wilson's moral relativism -- Can evolution be directed? -- Sociobiology and the direction of evolution -- Conclusion.".
catalog description "Sociobiological explanations of homosexuality -- Is sociobiology sexist? The minor charges -- Is sociobiology sexist? The major charge -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRITICISMS. -- The problem of reification -- Sociobiology as mystical nonsense -- Natural selection as social exploitation -- Is sociobiology unfalsifiable? General considerations -- Is sociobiology unfalsifiable? Particular considerations -- Is human sociobiology false? The rise and fall of Islam -- Is human sociobiology false? The problem of daughters -- Conclusion -- THE POSITIVE EVIDENCE. -- The direct evidence: problems with testing -- Successes and reservations -- The question of intelligence -- The causes behind intelligence -- The weight of the direct evidence for human sociobiology -- The argument from analogy -- Human aggression -- The indirect evidence for animal sociobiology -- The indirect evidence for human sociobiology -- The plausibility of cultural causes over biological causes -- ".
catalog description "THE BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND. -- Sociobiology as biology -- Principles of genetics -- Population genetics -- Selection as preserver of the status quo -- The level of selection -- The theory of evolution -- Sociobiology as part of evolutionary theory -- THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF ANIMALS. -- Aggression: the ethological viewpoint -- What is animal aggression really like? -- Evolutionary stable strategies -- Strengths and limitations of the game-theoretic approach -- Sex and sexual selection -- Parental investment -- Female reproductive strategies -- Parenthood -- Altruism -- Kin selection -- Parental manipulation -- Reciprocal altruism -- HUMAN SOCIOBIOLOGY. -- Aggression -- Sex -- Parenthood -- Kin selection -- Parental manipulation -- Reciprocal altruism -- A general model for human altruism -- NORMATIVE CRITICISMS. -- Sociobiology as reactionary -- Does sociobiology support virulent capitalism? -- Why Sahlins' criticisms about ideology fail -- ".
catalog extent "xi, 231 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Sociobiology, sense or nonsense?".
catalog identifier "9027709408".
catalog identifier "9027709432 (pbk.)".
catalog isFormatOf "Sociobiology, sense or nonsense?".
catalog isPartOf "Episteme ; v. 8".
catalog issued "1979".
catalog issued "c1979.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co.,".
catalog relation "Sociobiology, sense or nonsense?".
catalog subject "591.5".
catalog subject "Behavior, Animal.".
catalog subject "CC642".
catalog subject "Comportement social des animaux.".
catalog subject "QL775 .R87".
catalog subject "Social Behavior.".
catalog subject "Social behavior in animals Philosophy.".
catalog subject "Social behavior in animals.".
catalog subject "Sociobiologie.".
catalog subject "Sociobiology Philosophy.".
catalog subject "Wilson, Edward O. Sociobiology.".
catalog tableOfContents "Does culture leave a place for human sociobiology? -- A biological-cultural compromise -- Conclusion -- SOCIOBIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. -- Theory change: replacement and reduction -- The replacement of anthropology -- Primitive war as analysed through a biological-anthropological compromise -- Biologically sympathetic anthropology -- The formal relationship between a corrected anthropology and biology -- Psychology: the problem of learning -- Psychoanalytic theory and the explanation of homosexuality -- Economics -- Sociology -- Conclusion -- SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ETHICS. -- Why are we ethical? -- Evolutionary ethics -- Wilson's attack on intuitionism -- Wilson's moral relativism -- Can evolution be directed? -- Sociobiology and the direction of evolution -- Conclusion.".
catalog tableOfContents "Sociobiological explanations of homosexuality -- Is sociobiology sexist? The minor charges -- Is sociobiology sexist? The major charge -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRITICISMS. -- The problem of reification -- Sociobiology as mystical nonsense -- Natural selection as social exploitation -- Is sociobiology unfalsifiable? General considerations -- Is sociobiology unfalsifiable? Particular considerations -- Is human sociobiology false? The rise and fall of Islam -- Is human sociobiology false? The problem of daughters -- Conclusion -- THE POSITIVE EVIDENCE. -- The direct evidence: problems with testing -- Successes and reservations -- The question of intelligence -- The causes behind intelligence -- The weight of the direct evidence for human sociobiology -- The argument from analogy -- Human aggression -- The indirect evidence for animal sociobiology -- The indirect evidence for human sociobiology -- The plausibility of cultural causes over biological causes -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "THE BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND. -- Sociobiology as biology -- Principles of genetics -- Population genetics -- Selection as preserver of the status quo -- The level of selection -- The theory of evolution -- Sociobiology as part of evolutionary theory -- THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF ANIMALS. -- Aggression: the ethological viewpoint -- What is animal aggression really like? -- Evolutionary stable strategies -- Strengths and limitations of the game-theoretic approach -- Sex and sexual selection -- Parental investment -- Female reproductive strategies -- Parenthood -- Altruism -- Kin selection -- Parental manipulation -- Reciprocal altruism -- HUMAN SOCIOBIOLOGY. -- Aggression -- Sex -- Parenthood -- Kin selection -- Parental manipulation -- Reciprocal altruism -- A general model for human altruism -- NORMATIVE CRITICISMS. -- Sociobiology as reactionary -- Does sociobiology support virulent capitalism? -- Why Sahlins' criticisms about ideology fail -- ".
catalog title "Sociobiology, sense or nonsense? / Michael Ruse.".
catalog type "text".