In this Book

  • Evolution and Morality: NOMOS LII
  • Book
  • James E. Fleming
  • 2012
  • Published by: NYU Press
summary

Can theories of evolution explain the development of our capacity
for moral judgment and the content of morality itself?
If bad behavior punished by the criminal law is attributable
to physical causes, rather than being intentional or voluntary
as traditionally assumed, what are the implications for rethinking
the criminal justice system? Is evolutionary theory
and “nature talk,” at least as practiced to date, inherently
conservative and resistant to progressive and feminist proposals
for social changes to counter subordination and secure
equality?


In Evolution and Morality, a group of contributors from philosophy,
law, political science, history, and genetics address
many of the philosophical, legal, and political issues raised
by such questions. This insightful interdisciplinary volume
examines the possibilities of a naturalistic ethics, the implications
of behavioral morality for reform of the criminal law,
the prospects for a biopolitical science, and the relationship
between nature, culture, and social engineering.

Table of Contents

restricted access Download Full Book
  1. Cover
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Contents
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Contributors
  2. pp. xi-xii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. PART I: NATURALISTIC ETHICS
  1. 1. Naturalistic Ethics without Fallacies
  2. pp. 3-30
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 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)
  2. pp. 31-99
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 3. Missing Heritability: Hidden Environment in Genetic Studies of Human Behavior
  2. pp. 100-112
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. PART II: LAW AND BEHAVIORAL MORALITY
  1. 4. Law and Behavioral Morality
  2. pp. 115-165
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 5. Rethinking Unreasonableness: A Comment on Nita Farahany’s “Law and Behavioral Morality”
  2. pp. 166-193
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 6. A Case Study in Neuroscience and Responsibility
  2. pp. 194-211
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 7. Science Fiction: Some Unexamined Assumptions of Nita Farahany’s “Law and Behavioral Morality”
  2. pp. 212-217
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. PART III: BIOPOLITICAL SCIENCE
  1. 8. Biopolitical Science
  2. pp. 221-265
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 9. Comment on Larry Arnhart, “Biopolitical Science”
  2. pp. 266-276
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 10. Arnhart’s Explanatory Pluralism
  2. pp. 277-290
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. PART IV: NATURE, CONSERVATISM, AND PROGRESSIVISM
  1. 11. Against Nature
  2. pp. 293-346
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 12. Nature, Culture, and Social Engineering: Reflections on Evolution and Equality
  2. pp. 347-391
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Index
  2. pp. 393-399
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.