Evolutionary ethics
By: edited by Neil Levy
Series: International library of essays on evolutionary thought -- v. 3; International library of essays on evolutionary thought -- v. 3.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780754627586
Subjects: Evolutionary Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Any animal whatever" :; title: Darwinian building blocks of morality in monkeys and apes  -- Jessica C. Flack and Frans B.M. de Waal; title: Psychological altruism, evolutionary origins, and moral rules  -- Philip Kitcher; title: Summary of :; title: Unto others : the evolution and psychology of unselfish behaviour  -- Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson; title: Game theory, rationality and evolution of the social contract  -- Brian Skyrms; title: If homo economicus could choose his own utility function, would he want one with a conscience?  -- Robert H. Frank; title: Recent work on human altruism and evolution  -- Neven Sesardic; title: Evolution, altruism and cognitive architecture :; title: a critique of Sober and Wilson's argument for psychological altruism  -- Stephen Stich; title: Darwin's nihilistic idea :; title: evolution and the meaninglessness of life  -- Tamler Sommers and Alex Rosenberg; title: Evolutionary ethics :; title: a phoenix arisen  -- Michael Ruse; title: Darwinian ethics and error  -- Richard Joyce; title: A Darwinian dilemma for realist theories of value  -- Sharon Street; title: A defense of evolutionary ethics  -- Robert J. Richards; title: Is Darwin right? -- Keith Sutherland and Jordan Hughes.