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| Author | : Donald M. Broom |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2003-12-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521529242 |
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| Author | : Philip Clayton |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2004-08-04 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780802826954 |
Certain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike, Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive approach to an often divisive debate.
| Author | : Todd K. Shackelford |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2015-08-10 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 3319196715 |
This interdisciplinary collection presents novel theories, includes provocative re-workings of longstanding arguments, and offers a healthy cross-pollination of ideas to the morality literature. Structures, functions, and content of morality are reconsidered as cultural, religious, and political components are added to the standard biological/environmental mix. Innovative concepts such as the Periodic Table of Ethics and evidence for morality in non-human species illuminate areas for further discussion and research. And some of the book’s contributors question premises we hold dear, such as morality as a product of reason, the existence of moral truths, and the motto “life is good.” Highlights of the coverage: The tripartite theory of Machiavellian morality: judgment, influence, and conscience as distinct moral adaptations. Prosocial morality from a biological, cultural, and developmental perspective. The containment problem and the evolutionary debunking of morality. A comparative perspective on the evolution of moral behavior. A moral guide to depravity: religiously-motivated violence and sexual selection. Game theory and the strategic logic of moral intuitions. The Evolution of Morality makes a stimulating supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the evolutionary sciences, particularly in psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy
| Author | : Michael Bergmann |
| Publisher | : Berkeley Tanner Lectures |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2014-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199669775 |
Fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists explore the challenges to moral and religious belief posed by disagreement and evolution. The collection represents both sceptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion, cultivates new insights, and moves the discussion forward in illuminating ways.
| Author | : Michael Ruse |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0190241020 |
'Darwinism as Religion' argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the 19th-century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from the secure world of Christian faith into a darker, less friendly world of chance and lack of meaning.
| Author | : Brendan Sweetman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2015-10-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1628929863 |
Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective. This relationship is fascinating, complex and often very controversial, involving myriad issues that are difficult to keep separate from each other. Evolution, Chance, and God introduces the reader to the main themes of this debate and to the theory of evolution, while arguing for a particular viewpoint, namely that evolution and religion are compatible, and that, contrary to the views of some influential thinkers, there is no chance operating in the theory of evolution, a conclusion that has great significance for teleology. One of the main aims of this book is not simply to critique one influential contemporary view that evolution and religion are incompatible, but to explore specific ways of how we might understand their compatibility, as well as the implications of evolution for religious belief. This involves an exploration of how and why God might have created by means of evolution, and what the consequences in particular are for the status of human beings in creation, and for issues such as free will, the objectivity of morality, and the problem of evil. By probing how the theory of evolution and religion could be reconciled, Sweetman says that we can address more deeply key foundational questions concerning chance, design, suffering and morality, and God's way of acting in and through creation.
| Author | : Donald M. Broom |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2003-12-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521821926 |
Donald Broom argues that morality and the central components of religion are of great value, and presents two central ideas. He asserts that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and that religions are essentially the structures supporting morality. Many philosophers and theologians write about morality and its origins without reference to biological processes such as evolution. Likewise, biologists discuss phenomena of importance to human morality and religion without taking account of the thoughts of others on these subjects.
| Author | : James R. Liddle |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0199397740 |
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| Author | : Charles E. Kupchella |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2019-10-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781081372484 |
From author, Charles E. Kupchella comes a new contender for one of the best book on evolutionary psychology, a book exploring the connections between evolution, ethics and morality. Religion is thought by many to be the source of morality. It isn't. Morality came to us through biological evolution and rudiments of it can be found in many other social animals. Morality-enabled collaboration reached its epitome in Homo sapiens allowing our species to thrive and to bring civilization to its present state -- such as it is. While other books have addressed the biological origins of morality, this one goes much further into the mechanisms of evolution and into what cultural-evolution and specifically religion did with morality as it arose biologically. This book makes the point that although cultural evolution, with religion as a component, gave us ways to reinforce our inborn sense of morality, but religion has also been divisive. Religious "fences" keep us from seeing ourselves as part of one family of humankind. Today, religious differences and the tendency of blind faith to thwart critical thinking and to work its way into and confound politics and even education stand in the way of humankind's continued moral-maturation.
| Author | : Margaret Boone Rappaport |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2019-12-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1000760553 |
Religious capacity is a highly elaborate, neurocognitive human trait that has a solid evolutionary foundation. This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to describe millions of years of biological innovations that eventually give rise to the modern trait and its varied expression in humanity’s many religions. The authors present a scientific model and a central thesis that the brain organs, networks, and capacities that allowed humans to survive physically also gave our species the ability to create theologies, find sustenance in religious practice, and use religion to support the social group. Yet, the trait of religious capacity remains non-obligatory, like reading and mathematics. The individual can choose not to use it. The approach relies on research findings in nine disciplines, including the work of countless neuroscientists, paleoneurologists, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists. This is a cutting-edge examination of the evolutionary origins of humanity’s interaction with the supernatural. It will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious Studies, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, and Psychology.
