Joyce, Richard

The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy - New York Routledge 2018 - 441p - Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy -15 .

1. The Nature of Selection
The Nature of Selection : An Overview ..........3
Multilevel Selection and Units of Selection up and Down the Biological Hierarchy ......19
Adaptation, Multilevel Selection, and Organismality : A Clash of Perspectives .....35
Fitness Maximization ........49
Does Biology Need Theology .........64
Part II : Evolution and Information
Evolution and Information : An Overview ......79
The Construction of Learned Information through Selection Processes ...91
Genetic, Epigenetic, and Exogenetic Information ...106
Language: From How-Possible to How Possibly to How - Probably? ..120
Acquiring Knowledge on Species : Specific Biorealities ......136
Part III: Human Nature
Human Nature: An Overview ....155
The Reality of Species: Real Phenomena Not Theoretical Objects ...167
Modern Essentialism for Species and Its Animadversions ........182
What is Human Nature .......194
The Right to Ognore : An Epistemic Defense of the Nature /Culture Divide .......210
Part IV: Evolution and Mind
Evolution and Mind : An Overview ....227
Routes to the Convergent Evolution of Cognition.....237
Is Consciouness an Adaptation ....252
Plasticity and Modularity ......268
The Prospects for Teleosemantics : Can Biological Functions Fix Mental Content ?...282
Part V: Evolution and Ethics
Evolution and Ethics : An Overview ......295
The Evolution of Moral Intuition and Their Feeling of Rightness ........309
Are we Losing It: Darwin`s Moral Sense and the Importance of Early Experience .......322
The Evolution of Morality and the Prospects for Moral Realism ........333
Moral Cheesecake, Evolved Psychology, and the Debunking Impulse .....342
Part Vi Evolution, Aesthetics and Art
Evolution, Aesthetics, and Art: An Overview......359
Music and Human Evolution : Philosophical Aspects ......372
Emotional Responses to Fiction : An Evolutionary Perspective ....387
Evolution and Literature : Theory and Example .........399
Play and Evolution ...........414


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