The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy / Richard Joyce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joyce, Richard, 1966- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages : 8 illustrations).

Edition:

First.

Place of Publication:

Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I The Nature Of Selection

1 The Nature of Selection: An Overview p. 3 / Tim Lewens

2 Multilevel Selection and Units of Selection Up and Down the Biological Hierarchy p. 19 / Elisabeth A. Lloyd

3 Adaptation, Multilevel Selection, and Organismality: A Clash of Perspectives p. 35 / Ellen Clarke

4 Fitness Maximization p. 49 / Jonathan Birch

5 Does Biology Need Teleology? p. 64 / Karen Neander

Part II Evolution And Information

6 Evolution and Information: An Overview p. 79 / Ulrich Stegmann

7 The Construction of Learned Information through Selection Processes p. 91 / Nir Fresco and Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg

8 Genetic, Epigenetic, and Exogenetic Information p. 106 / Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths

9 Language: From How-Possibly to How-Probably? p. 120 / Kim Sterelny

10 Acquiring Knowledge on Species-Specific Bio realities: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach p. 136 / Nathalie Gontier and Michael Bradie

Part III Human Nature

11 Human Nature: An Overview p. 155 / Stephen M. Downes

12 The Reality of Species: Real Phenomena Not Theoretical Objects p. 167 / John Wilkins

13 Modern Essentialism for Species and Its Animadversions p. 182 / Joseph LaPorte

14 What Is Human Nature (If It Is Anything at All)? p. 194 / Louise Barrett

15 The Right to Ignore: An Epistemic Defense of the Nature/Culture Divide p. 210 / Maria Kronfeldner

Part IV Evolution and Mind

16 Evolution and Mind: An Overview p. 227 / Valerie Hardcastle

17 Routes to the Convergent Evolution of Cognition p. 237 / Edward W. Legg and Ljerka Ostojic and Nicola S. Clayton

18 Is Consciousness an Adaptation? p. 252 / Kari L. Theurer and Thomas W Polger

19 Plasticity and Modularity p. 268 / Edouard Machery

20 The Prospects for Teleosemantics: Can Biological Functions Fix Mental Content? p. 282 / Justine Kingsbury

Part V Evolution and Ethics

21 Evolution and Ethics: An Overview p. 295 / Catherine Wilson

22 The Evolution of Moral Intuitions and Their Feeling of Rightness p. 309 / Christine Clavien and Chloë FitzGerald

23 Are We Losing It? Darwin's Moral Sense and the Importance of Early Experience p. 322 / Darcia Narvaez

24 The Evolution of Morality and the Prospects for Moral Realism p. 333 / Ben Fraser

25 Moral Cheesecake, Evolved Psychology, and the Debunking Impulse p. 342 / Daniel R. Kelly

Part VI Evolution, Aesthetics, And Art

26 Evolution, Aesthetics, and Art: An Overview p. 359 / Stephen Davies

27 Music and Human Evolution: Philosophical Aspects p. 372 / Anton Killin

28 Emotional Responses to Fiction: An Evolutionary Perspective p. 387 / Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt

29 Evolution and Literature: Theory and Example p. 399 / Brian Boyd

30 Play and Evolution p. 414 / Patrick Bateson.

ISBN:

9781317655565

1317655567

OCLC:

1001961246

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