The Routledge handbook of evolution and philosophy /
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New York :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 M. 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 W. Legg, Ljerka Ostojić, and Nicola S. Clayton
- 18. Is consciousness an adaptation? / Kari L. Theurer and Thomas W. 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 early experience / Darcia Narvaez
- 24. The evolution of morality and the prospects for moral realism / Ben Fraser
- 25. Moral cheesecake, evolved psychology, and the debunking impulse / Daniel R. Kelly
- Part VI. Evolution, aesthetics, and art. 26. Evolution, aesthetics, and art: an overview / Stephen Davies
- 27. Music and human evolution : philosophical aspects / Anton Killin
- 28. Emotional responses to fiction : an evolutionary perspective / Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt
- 29. Evolution and literature : theory and example / Brian Boyd
- 30. Play and evolution / Patrick Bateson.