Evolution and Ethics - A Critique of Sociobiology

Informationen zum Autor Franklin Roy Bennett received his PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York, USA, where he has also taught as an adjunct professor. He received his BSc and MA from the University of Guelph, Canada and has taught as a secondary school science teacher. Klappentext Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Evolution and Ethics offers an insightful analysis of four epistemological types of sociobiology which appear in the extant literature, and includes a preliminary analysis of Darwinism itself. Zusammenfassung Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Evolution and Ethics offers an insightful analysis of four epistemological types of sociobiology which appear in the extant literature! and includes a preliminary analysis of Darwinism itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction 2 Two Theories of Evolution 3 Descriptive Instinctivism 4 Descriptive Rationalism 5 Prescriptive Instinctivism 6 Prescriptive Rationalism

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Two Theories of Evolution
3 Descriptive Instinctivism
4 Descriptive Rationalism
5 Prescriptive Instinctivism
6 Prescriptive Rationalism

Product details

• Authors: Franklin Roy Bennett
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137523815
• ISBN: 978-1-137-52381-5
• No. of pages: 263
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; B, History: specific events & topics, Ethics, Social Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Political History, History: specific events and topics, World Politics, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Social sciences—Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Palgrave Political Science Collection