Evolution and ethics : a critique of sociobiology / by Franklin Roy Bennett.
Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Sociobiologists adopt Darwinism as a premise from which they draw conclusions about ethics, but upon analysis, our understanding of how evolution happens is highly speculative. Evo...
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Two Theories of Evolution
- 3. Descriptive Instinctivism
- 4. Descriptive Rationalism
- 5. Prescriptive Instinctivism
- 6. Prescriptive Rationalism.