Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Did evolution make us psychological egoists?
- 2 Why not solipsism?
- 3 The adaptive advantage of learning and a priori prejudice
- 4 The primacy of truth-telling and the evolution of lying
- 5 Prospects for an evolutionary ethics
- 6 Contrastive empiricism
- 7 Let's razor Ockham's razor
- 8 The principle of the common cause
- 9 Explanatory presupposition
- 10 Apportioning causal responsibility
- 11 Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism
- 12 Temporally oriented laws
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Did evolution make us psychological egoists?
- 2 Why not solipsism?
- 3 The adaptive advantage of learning and a priori prejudice
- 4 The primacy of truth-telling and the evolution of lying
- 5 Prospects for an evolutionary ethics
- 6 Contrastive empiricism
- 7 Let's razor Ockham's razor
- 8 The principle of the common cause
- 9 Explanatory presupposition
- 10 Apportioning causal responsibility
- 11 Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism
- 12 Temporally oriented laws
- Index
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- From a Biological Point of ViewEssays in Evolutionary Philosophy, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994