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The Evolution of Morality and Religionby Donald M. Broom
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 45.00Biologist Donald Broom argues that morality and the central components of religion are of great value, and presents two central ideas: that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and secondly, that religions are essentially structures underpinning morality. more...
Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biologyby Giovanni Boniolo; Gabriele De Anna
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 27.00How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. more...
Naturlichkeitby Dieter Birnbacher
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 27.95In everyday morality, "naturalness" is a positively charged term. It plays a significant role wherever technical progress opens up natural processes to human control. This book enquires into the motives for the privileged position of the (relatively) natural over the (relatively) artificial and seeks out its roots in the history of ideas. more...
Defending the Genetic Supermarketby Colin Gavaghan
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 63.95Exploring the technology of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and the muddled approach adopted by the UK Parliament, this volume presents a much more ethically consistent and humane system than has been managed so far by the Authority. more...
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolvedby Stephen Macedo; Frans de Waal; Josiah Ober
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 15.95"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes. Science has thus exacerbated our reciprocal habits of blaming nature when we act badly and labeling the good things we do as "humane." Seeking the origin of human morality not in evolution but in human culture, science insists that we are moral by choice, not by nature. Citing remarkable evidence based on his extensive research of primate... more...
Biology and the Foundations of Ethicsby Jane Maienschein; Michael Ruse
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 31.00This collection of new essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics. more...
Moral Originsby Christopher Boehm
Basic Books 2012; US$ 28.99The natural and cultural history of the evolution of our sense of ethics, by a leading anthropologist of human morality. more...
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