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Evolution and Morality : NOMOS LII / ed. by Sanford V. Levinson, James E. Fleming.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 6Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814737828
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 172 23
LOC classification:
  • JA80 .E85 2012
  • JA80 .E85 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I. NATURALISTIC ETHICS -- 1. NATURALISTIC ETHICS WITHOUT FALLACIES -- 2. THE TWO FACES OF MORALITY: HOW EVOLUTIONARY THEORY CAN BOTH VINDICATE AND DEBUNK MORALITY (WITH A SPECIAL NOD TO THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF LAW) -- 3. MISSING HERITABILITY: HIDDEN ENVIRONMENT IN GENETIC STUDIES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR -- PART II. LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY -- 4. LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY -- 5. RETHINKING UNREASONABLENESS: A COMMENT ON NITA FARAHANY’S “LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY” -- 6. A CASE STUDY IN NEUROSCIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 7. SCIENCE FICTION: SOME UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS OF NITA FARAHANY’S “LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY” -- PART III. BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- 8. BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- 9. COMMENT ON LARRY ARNHART, “BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE” -- 10. ARNHART’S EXPLANATORY PLURALISM -- PART IV. NATURE, CONSERVATISM, AND PROGRESSIVISM -- 11. AGAINST NATURE -- 12. NATURE, CULTURE, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING: REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTION AND EQUALITY -- INDEX
Summary: Can theories of evolution explain the development of our capacityfor moral judgment and the content of morality itself?If bad behavior punished by the criminal law is attributableto physical causes, rather than being intentional or voluntaryas traditionally assumed, what are the implications for rethinkingthe criminal justice system? Is evolutionary theoryand “nature talk,” at least as practiced to date, inherentlyconservative and resistant to progressive and feminist proposalsfor social changes to counter subordination and secureequality?In Evolution and Morality, a group of contributors from philosophy,law, political science, history, and genetics addressmany of the philosophical, legal, and political issues raisedby such questions. This insightful interdisciplinary volumeexamines the possibilities of a naturalistic ethics, the implicationsof behavioral morality for reform of the criminal law,the prospects for a biopolitical science, and the relationshipbetween nature, culture, and social engineering.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I. NATURALISTIC ETHICS -- 1. NATURALISTIC ETHICS WITHOUT FALLACIES -- 2. THE TWO FACES OF MORALITY: HOW EVOLUTIONARY THEORY CAN BOTH VINDICATE AND DEBUNK MORALITY (WITH A SPECIAL NOD TO THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF LAW) -- 3. MISSING HERITABILITY: HIDDEN ENVIRONMENT IN GENETIC STUDIES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR -- PART II. LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY -- 4. LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY -- 5. RETHINKING UNREASONABLENESS: A COMMENT ON NITA FARAHANY’S “LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY” -- 6. A CASE STUDY IN NEUROSCIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 7. SCIENCE FICTION: SOME UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS OF NITA FARAHANY’S “LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY” -- PART III. BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- 8. BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- 9. COMMENT ON LARRY ARNHART, “BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE” -- 10. ARNHART’S EXPLANATORY PLURALISM -- PART IV. NATURE, CONSERVATISM, AND PROGRESSIVISM -- 11. AGAINST NATURE -- 12. NATURE, CULTURE, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING: REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTION AND EQUALITY -- INDEX

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Can theories of evolution explain the development of our capacityfor moral judgment and the content of morality itself?If bad behavior punished by the criminal law is attributableto physical causes, rather than being intentional or voluntaryas traditionally assumed, what are the implications for rethinkingthe criminal justice system? Is evolutionary theoryand “nature talk,” at least as practiced to date, inherentlyconservative and resistant to progressive and feminist proposalsfor social changes to counter subordination and secureequality?In Evolution and Morality, a group of contributors from philosophy,law, political science, history, and genetics addressmany of the philosophical, legal, and political issues raisedby such questions. This insightful interdisciplinary volumeexamines the possibilities of a naturalistic ethics, the implicationsof behavioral morality for reform of the criminal law,the prospects for a biopolitical science, and the relationshipbetween nature, culture, and social engineering.

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