Evolution and Morality
NOMOS LII
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2012
277 pages
978-0-8147-3782-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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English
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New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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1,81 MB
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978-0-8147-3782-8 (9780814737828)
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Persons
James E. Fleming is Professor of Law and The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law at Boston University School of Law. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy and, with Linda C. McClain, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues.
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).
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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