Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy

Contents



List of Contributors



Preface



PART I



The Nature of Selection



1 The nature of selection: An overview



Tim Lewens



2 Multilevel selection and units of selection up and down the biological hierarchy

Elisabeth A. Lloyd



3 Adaptation, multilevel selection, and organismality: A clash of perspectives

Ellen Clarke



4 Fitness maximization

Jonathan Birch



5 Does biology need teleology?

Karen Neander



PART II



Evolution and Information



6 Evolution and information: An overview

Ulrich Stegmann



7 The construction of learned information through selection processes

Nir Fresco, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg



8 Genetic, epigenetic, and exogenetic information

Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths



9 Language: From how-possibly to how-probably?

Kim Sterelny



10 Acquiring knowledge on species-specific biorealities: The applied evolutionary epistemological approach

Nathalie Gontier and Michael Bradie



PART III



Human Nature



11 Human Nature: An overview

Stephen Downes



12 The reality of species: Real phenomena not theoretical objects

John Wilkins



13 Modern essentialism for species and its animadversions

Joseph LaPorte



14 What is human nature (if it is anything at all?)

Louise Barrett



15 The right to ignore: An epistemic defense of the nature/culture divide

Maria Kronfeldner



PART IV



Evolution and Mind



16 Evolution and mind: An overview

Valerie Hardcastle



17 Routes to the convergent evolution of cognition

Edward Legg, Ljerka Ostojic, and Nicola Clayton



18 Is consciousness an adaptation?

Kari Theurer and Thomas Polger



19 Plasticity and modularity

Edouard Machery



20 The prospects for teleosemantics: Can biological functions fix mental content?

Justine Kingsbury



PART V



Evolution and Ethics



21 Evolution and ethics: An overview



Catherine Wilson



22 The evolution of moral intuitions and their feeling of rightness

Christine Clavien and Chloe FitzGerald



23 Are we losing it? Darwin's moral sense and the importance of early experience

Darcia Narvaez



24 The evolution of morality and the prospects for moral realism

Ben Fraser



25 Moral cheesecake, evolved psychology, and the debunking impulse

Daniel Kelly



PART VI



Evolution, Aesthetics, and Art



26 Evolution, aest

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Animal Kingdom;Massive Modularity Hypothesis;Vice Versa;Leopard Frog;Homeostatic Property Cluster;Impulse Control;Gene Culture Co-evolution;Species Concept;Standard Social Science Model;Homo Heidelbergensis;Teleosemantic Theories;Genic Selection;Massive Modularity;Developmental Systems Theory;Alarm Calls;Inclusive Fitness;Group Level Adaptations;Species Typical Traits;Error Theory;Major Evolutionary Transitions;Psychological Plasticity;Supernormal Stimuli;Natural Information;Folk Astronomy;Teleosemantic Account