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100 1 $aRuse, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78086451
245 10 $aTaking Darwin seriously :$ba naturalistic approach to philosophy /$cMicahel Ruse.
250 $a[2nd ed.].
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c1998.
300 $axix, 323 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: New York, NY : Blackwell, 1986.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [298]-315) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Biological Background.$tThe fact of evolution.$tThe path of evolution.$tThe theory of evolution: natural selection.$tThe theory of evolution: modern genetics.$tGood science? --$g2.$tEvolutionary Epistemology.$tEvolution as analogy.$tHerbert Spencer and the law of progress.$tStephen Toulmin's Darwinian model.$tThe analogy considered: the fact of evolution.$tThe analogy considered: the path of evolution.$tThe analogy considered: the cause of evolution.$tDonald Campbell's Darwinian variations.$tKarl Popper and the revision of Darwinism --$g3.$tEvolutionary Ethics.$tMoral issues.$tEvolution and ethics.$tHerbert Spencer and the moral value of progress.$tSpencerian problems.$tWilliam Graham Sumner and Social Darwinism.$tThomas Henry Huxley and his stand against nature.$tHume's law and the naturalistic fallacy.$tIs the natural innately good?$tEdward O. Wilson and the foundations of morality.$tThe evolution of the moral sense --$g4.$tHuman Evolution.$tThe fact of human evolution.
505 80 $tThe path of human evolution.$tThe cause of human evolution.$tThe problem of culture.$tThe biology of language.$tApe language.$tIs culture independent of biology?$tEpigenetic rules --$g5.$tDarwinian Epistemology.$tThe nature of science.$tScientific reasoning.$tThe case for a biological backing.$tThe case for (continued).$tThe case against.$tThe rivals to science.$tPhilosophical precursor: Kant?$tPhilosophical precursor: Hume?$tCommon-sense realism.$tMetaphysical scepticism.$tKonrad Lorenz and the biological a priori.$tThe ultimate foundations --$g6.$tDarwinian Ethics.$tSubstantive ethics.$tMeta-ethics.$tThe evolution of morality.$tThe empirical evidence: social animals.$tThe empirical evidence: chimpanzees.$tThe empirical evidence: humans.$tSubstantive ethics reconsidered: utilitarianism.$tMy family and other animals.$tTo give and not to count the cost.$tSubstantive ethics reconsidered: Kantianism.$tMoral disagreements.$tDarwinian meta-ethics.$tObjectifying morality.$tStepping around Hume's law.
505 80 $tFreedom of choice.$tPossible precursor: Kant?$tPossible precursor: Hume?$tLooking forward.$tDarwin's New Critics on Trial.
520 $aSince its original publication, Taking Darwin Seriously has established itself as one of the most important works of evolutionary naturalism since Charles Darwin's Origin of Species over a century ago. Applying evolutionary biology to philosophical problems of epistemology and ethics, it definitively establishes a naturalistic approach to our understanding of life's major problems.
520 8 $aUpdated with a new preface and a final chapter that addresses the most recent developments in and popular attacks on contemporary evolution, this is an essential work for those interested in the implications of modern Darwinism - especially human sociobiology - for questions in the theory of knowledge and of moral behaviour and thought.
520 8 $aWritten in a style accessible to both the professional and the general reader, Taking Darwin Seriously is intended as a direct challenge to all who would push creationism as a credible alternative to scientific evolution in public schools, universities, and as a general theory for public consumption.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003836
852 00 $bglx$hQH360.5$i.R878 1998