| Description |
700 pages Ports |
| Series |
Science and Its Conceptual Foundations |
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Science and its conceptual foundations.
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| Contents |
1. Origins of Evolutionary Biology of Behavior -- 2. Behavior and Mind in Evolution: Charles Darwin's Early Theories of Instinct, Reason, and Morality -- 3. Contributions of Natural Theology to Darwin's Theory of the Evolution of Mind and Behavior -- 4. Debates of Evolutionists over Human Reason and Moral Sense, 1859-1871 -- 5. Darwin and the Descent of Human Rational and Moral Faculties -- 6. Spencer's Conception of Evolution as a Moral Force -- 7. Evolutionary Ethics: Spencer and His Critics -- 8. Darwinism and the Demands of Metaphysics and Religion: Romanes, Mivart, and Morgan -- 9. The Personal Equation in Science: William James's Psychological and Moral Uses of Darwinian Theory -- 10. James Mark Baldwin: Evolutionary Biopsychology and the Politics of Scientific Ideas -- 11. Transformation of the Darwinian Image of Man in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion: Darwinism Is Evolutionary -- Appendix 1- The Natural-Selection Model and Other Models in the Historiography of Science -- Appendix 2- A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics |
| Analysis |
Man Behaviour Evolutionary aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 629-662 |
| Notes |
History of Science Society Pfizer Award, 1988 |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Views on genetic psychology
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Genetic psychology.
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Human evolution.
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Psychobiology.
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Biological Evolution.
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Genetics, Behavioral.
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Thinking.
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| LC no. |
87010891 |
| ISBN |
0226711994 |
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