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Zusatztext "The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy is a superb introduction to the field.? Particularly impressive are the breadth of topics and the incredibly encouraging range of authors! young and old! male and female! and from so many countries and cultures. This is a book that will last."--Michael Ruse! Florida State University? Informationen zum Autor Richard Joyce is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria Universityof Wellington!New Zealand. He isauthor of The Myth of Morality (2001)! The Evolution of Morality (2006)! and Essays in Moral Skepticism (2016)! as well as many articles on metaethics and moral psychology. He has co-edited A World Without Values (2010) and Cooperation and its Evolution (2013). Klappentext The connection between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory is a two-way street. In one direction! philosophers of biology make significant contributions to theoretical discussions about the nature of evolution; in the other direction! philosophers use Darwinian selection to illuminate traditional philosophical puzzles. The thirty chapters! written exclusively for this volume! include cutting-edge examples from both directions. Written by international leaders in their fields! the contributions are divided into six sections: The Nature of Selection! Evolution and Information! Human Nature! Evolution and Mind! Evolution and Ethics! and Evolution! Aesthetics! and Art. Zusammenfassung Thirty chapters written by international leaders in the field on the connections between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Contributors Preface PART I The Nature of Selection 1 The nature of selection: An overview Tim Lewens 2 Multilevel selection and units of selection up and down the biological hierarchy Elisabeth A. Lloyd 3 Adaptation, multilevel selection, and organismality: A clash of perspectives Ellen Clarke 4 Fitness maximization Jonathan Birch 5 Does biology need teleology? Karen Neander PART II Evolution and Information 6 Evolution and information: An overview Ulrich Stegmann 7 The construction of learned information through selection processes Nir Fresco, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg 8 Genetic, epigenetic, and exogenetic information Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths 9 Language: From how-possibly to how-probably? Kim Sterelny 10 Acquiring knowledge on species-specific biorealities: The applied evolutionary epistemological approach Nathalie Gontier and Michael Bradie PART III Human Nature 11 Human Nature: An overview Stephen Downes 12 The reality of species: Real phenomena not theoretical objects John Wilkins 13 Modern essentialism for species and its animadversions Joseph LaPorte 14 What is human nature (if it is anything at all?) Louise Barrett 15 The right to ignore: An epistemic defense of the nature/culture divide Maria Kronfeldner PART IV Evolution and Mind 16 Evolution and mind: An overview Valerie Hardcastle 17 Routes to the convergent evolution of cognition Edward Legg, Ljerka Ostojic, and Nicola Clayton 18 Is consciousness an adaptation? Kari Theurer and Thomas Polger 19 Plasticity and modularity Edouard Machery 20 The prospects for teleosemantics: Can biological functions fix mental content? Justine Kingsbury PART V Evolution and Ethics 21 Evolution and ethics: An overview Catherine Wilson 22 The evolution of moral intuitions and their feeling of rightness Christine Clavien and Chloë FitzGerald 23 Are we losing it? Darwin’s moral sense and the importance of ...
