Evolutionary ethics and contemporary biology进化的伦理与当代生物学
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作者: Giovanni Boniolo, Gabriele De Anna编
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出版时间: 2006-7-1字数:版次: 1页数: 207印刷时间: 2006/07/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780521856294包装: 精装编辑推荐
作者简介
Giovanni Boniolo is Full Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Padua. He is the author of many articles and books, including Metode e rappresentaazioni del mondo. Per un'altra Filosofia della scienze and, with P. Viali, Filosofia della scienza and Strumenti per ragionare.
Gabriele de Anna is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Udine. She is the author of Realismo metafisico e rappresentazione mentale and Il pensiero filosofico e politico de Sebastiana De Apollonia.
内容简介
How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems.
目录
List of Contributors
Introduction
Giovanni Boniolo and Gabriele De Anna
PARTⅠTHE L1M1TS OF EvOLUTIONARY EXPLANATIONS AND JUSTIFICATIONS OF ETHICS
1 Is Darwinian Metaethics Possible(And If It Is, Is It Well Taken)?
Michael Ruse
2 The Descent of Instinct and the Ascent of Ethics
Giovanni Boniolo
PART Ⅱ METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNTS OF ETHICS
3 Are Human Beings Part of the Rest of Nature?
Christopher Lang, Elliott Sober, and Karen Strier
4 The Nature of Resemblance: Homologues in the Nervous
System and Behavioral Correspondence
Aldo Fasolo
PART Ⅲ HOW BIOLOGICAL RESULTS CAN HELP EXPLAIN MORALLY RELEVANT HUMAN CAPACITIES
5 Genetic Influences on Moral Capacity: What Genetic Mutants Can Teach Us
Giovanni Boniolo and Paolo Vezzoni
6 Evolutionary Psychopharmacology, Mental Disorders, and Ethical Behavior
Stefano Canali, Gabriele De Anna, and Luca Pani
7 The Biology of Human Culture and Ethics: An Evolutionary Perspective
Stefano Parmigiani, Gabriele De Anna, Danilo Mainardi, and Paola Palanza
PART Ⅳ HOW BIOLOGICAL RESULTS CAN HELP EXPLAIN MORAL SYSTEMS
8 Biology to Ethics: An Evolutionist's View of Human Nature
Francisco Ayala
9 Between Fragile Altruism and Morality: Evolution and the
Emergence of Normative Guidance
Philip Kitcher
10 Will Genomics Do More for Metaphysics Than Locke?
Alex Rosenberg
Index