Evolution and Ethics: A Critique of Sociobiology

ISBN-13: 9781137523815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 263 str.

Franklin Roy Bennett

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.