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Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior

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University of Chicago Press, 1987 - Science - 718 pages
With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior.

"Richards's book is now the obvious introduction to the history of ideas about mind and behavior in the nineteenth century."—Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement

"Not since the publication of Michael Ghiselin's The Triumph of the Darwinian Method has there been such an ambitious, challenging, and methodologically self-conscious interpretation of the rise and development and evolutionary theories and Darwin's role therein."—John C. Greene, Science

"His book . . . triumphantly achieves the goal of all great scholarship: it not only informs us, but shows us why becoming thus informed is essential to understanding our own issues and projects."—Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy of Science

  

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Contents

Origins of Evolutionary Biology of Behavior
4
Behavior and Mind in Evolution Charles Darwins Early Theories of Instinct Reason and Morality
55
Contributions of Natural Theology to Darwins Theory of the Evolution of Mind and Behavior
111
Debates of Evolutionists over Human Reason and Moral Sense 18591871
141
Darwin and the Descent of Human Rational and Moral Faculties
169
Spencers Conception of Evolution as a Moral Force
227
Evolutionary Ethics Spencer and His Critics
279
Darwinism and the Demands of Metaphysics and Religion Romanes Mivart and Morgan
315
The Personal Equation in Science William Jamess Psychological and Moral Uses of Darwinian Theory
393
James Mark Baldwin Evolutionary Biopsychology and the Politics of Scientific Ideas
435
Transformation of the Darwinian Image of Man in the Twentieth Century
488
Darwinism Is Evolutionary
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Bibliography
613
Index
647
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About the author (1987)

Robert J. Richards is professor of history, philosophy, and behavioral science at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science and director of the Program in History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine.

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TitleDarwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
Science and Its Conceptual Foundations S
AuthorRobert J. Richards
Edition4, illustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press, 1987
ISBN0226712001, 9780226712000
Length718 pages
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