
Evolution and Morality
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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.
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Sanford V. Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Regents Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance and Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It).
Content
- Cover
- 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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