Evolution 2.0

Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences

By: Friedel Weinert (Editor), Martin Brinkworth (Editor)

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Hardcover | 7 October 2011 | Edition Number 2012

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Introduction. I. Darwinism in Approaches to the Mind. The Embodiment of Mind.- Depression: An Evolutionary Adaptation Organised around the Third Ventricle.- Does Depression need an Evolutionary Explanation? A Darwinian Account of Self and Free Will.- The Problem of Darwinizing Culture (or Memes as the new Phlogiston).- II. Impact of Darwinism in the Social Sciences and Philosophy. Evolutionary Epistemology: Its Aspirations and Limits.- Angraecum Sesquepedale: Darwin's Great 'Gamble'.- Darwinian Inferences.- Breaking the Bonds of Biology - Natural Selection in Nelson and Winter's Evolutionary Economics.- The Ethical Treatment of Animals: the Moral Significance of Darwin's Theory.- III. Philosophical Aspects of Darwinism in the Life Sciences. Is Human Evolution Over?.- Evolutionary Medicine.-The Struggle for Life and the Conditions of Existence: Two Interpretations of Darwinian Evolution.- Frequency Dependence Arguments For the Co-Evolution of Genes and Culture.- Taking Biology Seriously: Neo-Darwinism and its many Challenges.- Implications of recent advances in the understanding of heritability for neo-Darwinian Orthodoxy.-

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