Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics 9780739198650, 9780739198643

In the late nineteenth century, culture critics who were readers of Darwin’s work on evolution pondered what the implica

184 16 1MB

English Pages 157 Year 2015

Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics
9780739198650, 9780739198643

Might human morality be a product of evolution? An increasing number of philosophers and scientists believe that moral j

249 10 15MB Read more

A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how

341 24 3MB Read more

In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning i

169 51 3MB Read more

Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteent

1,797 146 2MB Read more

Plato’s Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ulti

551 67 4MB Read more

The first major intervention into insurrectionist ethics, a term taken from esteemed African-American philosopher Leonar

154 92 9MB Read more

"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead an

170 12 391MB Read more

There are few living thinkers who have enjoyed the eminence and reown of Jürgen Hamermas. His work has been highly influ

193 27 2MB Read more

This book examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either unnatural and to be avo

169 81 2MB Read more

Pragmatism and the Reflective Life explains the moral perspective embedded in the American pragmatist tradition and offe

287 23 838KB Read more