Altruism & altruistic love : science, philosophy, & religion in dialogue /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Post, Stephen G. (Stephen Garrard), 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.
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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.