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9780812696325

Commonsense Darwinism Evolution, Morality, and the Human Condition

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    9780812696325

  • ISBN10:

    0812696328

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-11-04
  • Publisher: Open Court
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"Commonsense Darwinism surveys and responds to recent philosophical discussions of the implications of evolutionary biology. Lemos defends an objectivist account of ethics and criticizes Michael Ruse's nonobjectivist evolutionary ethics, while explaining his own differences with other writers who combine evolution and objective ethics. He expounds and criticizes James Rachels's argument that Darwinism implies vegetarianism, and examines Alvin Plantinga's attempt to show that if evolution is true, we cannot know anything. Lemos looks closely at various views on the issue of whether people are necessarily fundamentally selfish, and also argues that evolution is fully compatible with free will."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

John Lemos is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Coe College.

Table of Contents

Defending a sociobiological account of moralityp. 1
Nonobjectivist evolutionary ethicsp. 29
Recent objectivist approaches to evolutionary ethicsp. 43
Sketch of an Aristotelian evolutionary ethicsp. 63
Evolutionary biology and the moral status of animalsp. 83
Faith, reason, and evolutionary epistemologyp. 117
Psychological egoism and evolutionary biologyp. 151
Evolution and free will : Darwinian non-naturalism defendedp. 173
Recent developments in the philosophy of evolutionp. 191
Bibliographyp. 231
Indexp. 241
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