Altruism & altruistic love : science, philosophy, & religion in dialogue /
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: DEFINITIONS
- Introduction to Part I / Stephen G. Post
- The ABCs of altruism / Elliott Sober
- Pythagorean bodies and the body of altruism / Edith Wyschogrod
- Morality, altruism, and love / Jerome Kagan
- The tradition of agape / Stephen G. Post
- Conclusion to Part I / Stephen G. Post
- PART II: HUMAN MOTIVATION AND ACTION
- Introduction to Part II / Lynn G. Underwood
- The human experience of compassionate love : conceptual mapping and data from selected studies / Lynn G. Underwood
- Addressing the altruism question experimentally / C. Daniel Batson
- Explicating altruism / Kristen Renwick Monroe
- Extraordinary acts of ordinary people : faces of heroism and altruism / Samuel P. Oliner
- Conclusion to Part II / Lynn G. Underwood
- PART III: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
- Introduction to Part III / Jeffrey P. Schloss
- A darwinian naturalist's perspective on altruism / Michael Ruse
- Relating self, others, and sacrifice in the ordering of love / Stephen J. Pope
- The fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of altruism in evolutionary biology / David Sloan Wilson, Elliott Sober
- Some obstacles to altruism / Melvin Konner
- Emerging accounts of altruism : "love creation's final law?" / Jeffrey P. Schloss
- Conclusion to Part III / Jeffrey P. Schloss.
- PART IV: THE SCIENCE OF ALTRUISM
- Introduction to Part IV / William B. Hurlbut
- Implications for the neurobiology of love / Thomas R. Insel
- A note on the neurobiology of emotions / Antonio R. Damasio
- Impairment of interpersonal social behavior caused acquired brain damage / Hanna Damasio
- The communication of emotions and the possibility of empathy in animals / Stephanie D. Preston, Frans B.M. de Waal
- Empathy, evolution, and altruism / William B. Hurlbut
- Conclusion to Part IV / William B. Hurlbut
- PART V: RELIGION
- Introduction to Part V / Stephen G. Post
- Science and religion on the nature of love / Don S. Browning
- Separation, attachment, and altruistic love : the evolutionary basis for medical caring / Gregory L. Fricchione
- Compassion out of wisdom : buddhist perspectives from the past toward the human future / Ruben L.F. Habito
- Conclusion to Part V / Stephen G. Post
- A concluding summary : Future research needs on altruism and altruistic love / Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood
- Annotated bibliography: Research on personality and individual differences in altruism / Shelley Dean Kilpatrick, Michael E. McCullough.