The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical Religion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. Part I. Epistemology after Darwin
6. Introduction 15
7. The Principles of Psychology 29
8. The Gay Science 32
9. The Evolution of Self- Consciousness 34
10. The Fixation of Belief 39
11. Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment 49
12. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy 55
13. Part II. Ethics after Darwin
14. Introduction 65
15. The Descent of Man 77
16. The Data of Ethics 103
17. The Challenge of Facts 113
18. The Gospel of Wealth 122
19. Socialism 128
20. Mutual Aid 130
21. Human Progress: Past and Future 133
22. The Right to Make War 134
23. The Call of the Wild 137
24. Principia Ethica: Naturalistic Ethics 141
25. Evolution and Ethics 152
26. Part III. The Evolution of Ideas
27. Introduction 157
28. Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme 167
29. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 176
30. The Evolutionary Development of Natural Science 177
31. Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination 189
32. Three Challenges for the Survival of Memetics 198
33. Altruism in Science: A Sociobiological Model of Cooperative Behavior among Scientists 202
34. Why Reason Can’t Be Naturalized: Evolutionary Epistemology 217
35. Part IV. The Evolution of Rationality
36. Introduction 223
37. Kant’s Doctrine of the A Priori in the Light of Contemporary Biology 231
38. The View from Somewhere: A Critical Defense of Evolutionary Epistemology 247
39. How the Mind Works 275
40. Evolution, Thinking, and Rationality 289
41. The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the Argument 301
42. Darwin’s Doubt, Calvin’s Calvary 309
43. Part V. Ethics and Progress
44. Introduction 325
45. On Human Nature 333
46. A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation 343
47. Darwinian Conservatism 349
48. Moral Philosophy as Applied Science 365
49. Four Ways of “Biologicizing” Ethics 379
50. A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics 388
51. Part VI. The Evolution of Altruism
52. Introduction 413
53. The Liver and the Moral Organ 423
54. Unto Others 433
55. Is Human Morality Innate? 452
56. Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology 464
57. Ethics and Intuitions 476
58. Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach 489
59. The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical Religion 511
60. Thomistic Natural Law and the Limits of Evolutionary Psychology 522
61. An Evolutionary Account of Evil 533
62. Falling Up: Evolution and Original Sin 539
63. SOURCES AND CREDITS 549
64. FURTHER READING 553
65. BIBLIOGRAPHY 561
66. INDEX 569