Philosophy of Biology

210 Michael Bradie Darwin, that other creatures that are intelligent but self reliant would not be moved by considerations of sy ...

Evolution and Normativity 211 the animals. The Darwinian theory of common descent suggests that all organisms are interrelated. ...

212 Michael Bradie for criticalmoralrealism could be made as well. This ignores, of course, all the arguments that have been mad ...

Evolution and Normativity 213 ary history of human kind. He went on to develop an ‘instrumental’ conception of knowledge that sa ...

214 Michael Bradie for is to produce fruitful hypotheses that withstand rigorous tests. If we are to take Dewey’s insights serio ...

Evolution and Normativity 215 First, are we to follow Wittgenstein and eschew all empirical input for the res- olution of philos ...

216 Michael Bradie [Bradie, 1994a] M. Bradie. Epistemology from an Evolutionary Point of View. InConceptual Issues in Evolutiona ...

Evolution and Normativity 217 [Popper, 1978]K. R. Popper. Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind.Dialectica32: 339-55, 1978 ...

EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS Catherine Wilson 1 INTRODUCTION Evolutionary Ethics is the study of the relationship between the theory of n ...

220 Catherine Wilson of the self as an agent capable of performing noble and selfish actions, and since nonhuman social animals ...

Evolutionary Ethics 221 self-eliminate. He seemed at once to recognize and fear an objective condition of degeneracy and to deny ...

222 Catherine Wilson allegedly failed ideals of the benevolent, expensive, and politically unstable Welfare State and the return ...

Evolutionary Ethics 223 2 BACKGROUND ASSUMPTIONS The central assumption of evolutionary ethics is that genes direct the construc ...

224 Catherine Wilson Before going on to consider the possible bearing of such evolutionary explana- tions of the origins of cert ...

Evolutionary Ethics 225 date, built under the influence of genes that were selected in some earlier era when conditions were dif ...

226 Catherine Wilson individual constituents would fare poorly in other-things-being equal competition with rival genes. It has ...

Evolutionary Ethics 227 rational choice, is increasingly clear. Altruism co-exists with self-favouring and kin- favouring tenden ...

228 Catherine Wilson clude women’s greater emotionality and empathy, women’s greater predisposition to form intimate social rela ...

Evolutionary Ethics 229 female [Pinker, 2002, 346]. Barash argues that “Males tend to achieve fitness by making themselves as at ...

230 Catherine Wilson and cultural accomplishment are left to men who are held to express their compe- tencies and intrinsic comp ...