Darwin / Tim Lewens.
| Author/creator | Lewens, Tim |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xii, 289 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge philosophers Routledge philosophers. ^A601180 |
| Contents | A philosophical naturalist : introduction -- Dial 'M' for 'metaphysics' -- Darwin and darwinism -- Darwin unfolding -- Life -- Pedigree -- From sport to science -- The Beagle voyage -- London, marriage and the notebooks -- Down ... -- ... And out -- Selection -- Evolution and natural selection -- The argument for natural selection -- Darwin and Lamarck -- Darwin's dangerous idea -- Natural selection and variation -- Selection and creativity -- Selection and population -- Natural selection then and now -- Species -- Human nature, squid nature, apple nature -- The tree of life -- Butchering nature -- Individuals and kinds -- Population thinking and typological thinking -- Species natures -- Evidence -- Science and God -- Inference to the best explanation -- Herschel and Whewell -- Herschel and the Origin -- Darwin, Whewell and Gemmules -- Natural selection and common ancestry -- The natural selection/intelligent design debate -- Evolution with intelligent design -- Darwin and religion -- Mind -- Squandered riches? -- The three principles of emotional expression -- Common ancestry -- The universality of emotional expression -- Culture and the evolutionary approach -- The Santa Barbara school -- A single human nature? -- The adaptive heuristic -- Darwin and Santa Barbara -- Ethics -- Ethics from the side of natural history -- The origins of the moral sense -- Darwin's normative ethics -- Evolutionary normative ethics -- Evolutionary meta-ethics -- Group selection -- Has evolution made us selfish? -- Knowledge -- What is knowledge? -- Empiricism -- Innate knowledge -- Evolutionary epistemology : James and Popper -- Memes -- Cultural evolution without Memes -- Politics -- Darwin and the right -- Degenerating society -- Social darwinism -- Politics and human nature -- Darwin and the equality of the sexes -- Sex differences today -- Darwin and the left -- Philosophy -- Man's place in nature -- Hubris -- Contingency -- Progress -- Darwinian naturalism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-281) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006014463 |
| ISBN | 0415346371 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 041534638X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0203597133 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415346375 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415346382 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203597132 (ebk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |