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• catalog abstract ""Human Nature After Darwin is an investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, and in doing so provides an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems." "Janet Radcliffe Richards claims that many current battles about Darwinism, in particular about evolutionary psychology and religion, are based on mistaken assumptions about the implications of the rival views. Her analysis of these implications provides a much-needed guide to the fundamentals of Darwinism and the so-called Darwin wars, as well as providing a set of philosophical techniques relevant to wide areas of moral and political debate. It also raises philosophical problems of knowledge and certainty, free will and responsibility, altruism, the status of ethics, and the relevance of Darwinism to questions of ethics, politics, and religion." "The book is an intrduction to both philosophy and Darwinism, as well as a contribution to topics of current controversy. It will be of interest to students of philosophy, science and the social sciences, and critical thinking."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12299544.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Human Nature After Darwin is an investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, and in doing so provides an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems." "Janet Radcliffe Richards claims that many current battles about Darwinism, in particular about evolutionary psychology and religion, are based on mistaken assumptions about the implications of the rival views. Her analysis of these implications provides a much-needed guide to the fundamentals of Darwinism and the so-called Darwin wars, as well as providing a set of philosophical techniques relevant to wide areas of moral and political debate. It also raises philosophical problems of knowledge and certainty, free will and responsibility, altruism, the status of ethics, and the relevance of Darwinism to questions of ethics, politics, and religion." "The book is an intrduction to both philosophy and Darwinism, as well as a contribution to topics of current controversy. It will be of interest to students of philosophy, science and the social sciences, and critical thinking."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [304]-308) and index.".
• catalog description "The theory -- The first scientific revolution -- The Darwinian revolution -- Natural selection -- Cranes and skyhooks -- Scope and potential -- The sceptics -- But is it true? -- Scientific confidence -- The perpetual threat of overthrow -- Radical sceptics and rational bets -- Shifting goalposts -- The Omphalos case -- Slips of level and sleights of hand -- Internecine strife -- A spectrum of Darwinism -- The battle lines -- Mind First and Matter First -- Blank paper and gene machines -- The evolutionary psychology of sex -- Persisting controversy -- Implications and conditionals -- Where to go from here -- The assessment of conditionals -- Biology as destiny -- Robots and puppets -- Setting out the argument -- Assessing the argument -- First step: 'women' to 'woman' -- Second step: dispositions to actions -- Third step: unchangeability -- Tu quoque -- Blameless puppets -- Philandering gene machines -- Real responsibility -- The challenge from dualism -- The problem of determinism -- The problem of indeterminism -- The root of the free will problem: kinds of non-existence -- More shifts of level and sleights of hand -- Equivocation and punishment -- Selfish genes and moral animals -- Evolution and altruism -- Unselfish gene machines? -- Kin-directed altruism -- Reciprocal altruism -- True altruism? -- Reciprocal selfishness -- Ulterior genetic motives -- Egoism and tautology -- More shifts of level: reductive explanations -- The end of ethics -- Particular moralities and morality in general.".
• catalog extent "vii, 313 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "041521243X".
• catalog identifier "0415212448 (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
• catalog subject "128 21".
• catalog subject "BD450 .R4683 2000".
• catalog subject "Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.".
• catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) Philosophy.".
• catalog subject "Human evolution.".
• catalog subject "Philosophical anthropology.".
• catalog subject "Philosophy Introductions.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The theory -- The first scientific revolution -- The Darwinian revolution -- Natural selection -- Cranes and skyhooks -- Scope and potential -- The sceptics -- But is it true? -- Scientific confidence -- The perpetual threat of overthrow -- Radical sceptics and rational bets -- Shifting goalposts -- The Omphalos case -- Slips of level and sleights of hand -- Internecine strife -- A spectrum of Darwinism -- The battle lines -- Mind First and Matter First -- Blank paper and gene machines -- The evolutionary psychology of sex -- Persisting controversy -- Implications and conditionals -- Where to go from here -- The assessment of conditionals -- Biology as destiny -- Robots and puppets -- Setting out the argument -- Assessing the argument -- First step: 'women' to 'woman' -- Second step: dispositions to actions -- Third step: unchangeability -- Tu quoque -- Blameless puppets -- Philandering gene machines -- Real responsibility -- The challenge from dualism -- The problem of determinism -- The problem of indeterminism -- The root of the free will problem: kinds of non-existence -- More shifts of level and sleights of hand -- Equivocation and punishment -- Selfish genes and moral animals -- Evolution and altruism -- Unselfish gene machines? -- Kin-directed altruism -- Reciprocal altruism -- True altruism? -- Reciprocal selfishness -- Ulterior genetic motives -- Egoism and tautology -- More shifts of level: reductive explanations -- The end of ethics -- Particular moralities and morality in general.".
• catalog title "Human nature after Darwin : a philosophical introduction / Janet Radcliffe Richards.".
• catalog type "Introductions. fast".
• catalog type "text".