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... philosophers find only confirmations of his absence. With God nowhere to be found, a new and reductionistic set of moral demands is deduced and proclaimed: in our bodies, minds, and societies, we are simply the expression of our ...
... philosophers find only confirmations of his absence. With God nowhere to be found, a new and reductionistic set of moral demands is deduced and proclaimed: in our bodies, minds, and societies, we are simply the expression of our ...
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... philosophical, and moral in its nature? Why are scientists — who since the birth of science as an autonomous profession have tended to be remarkably cautious and reticent about the broader implications of their work — now so aggressive ...
... philosophical, and moral in its nature? Why are scientists — who since the birth of science as an autonomous profession have tended to be remarkably cautious and reticent about the broader implications of their work — now so aggressive ...
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... philosophical presuppositions, social position, cultural context, and other "extrascientific" elements is not ... philosophers of science and sociologists of knowledge have begun to argue, every scientific investigation, whether ...
... philosophical presuppositions, social position, cultural context, and other "extrascientific" elements is not ... philosophers of science and sociologists of knowledge have begun to argue, every scientific investigation, whether ...
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... philosophical, and theological issues were intermingled to form a common context in which to explore the question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to the natural theology ...
... philosophical, and theological issues were intermingled to form a common context in which to explore the question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to the natural theology ...
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... philosophers aim to complete the work of Nietzsche and Freud: to unmask our remaining illusions and to recover at last "the eternal basic text of homo natura" (Nietzsche 1966, p. 161). But "psychological man" (see Rieff 1959, pp. 329-57 ...
... philosophers aim to complete the work of Nietzsche and Freud: to unmask our remaining illusions and to recover at last "the eternal basic text of homo natura" (Nietzsche 1966, p. 161). But "psychological man" (see Rieff 1959, pp. 329-57 ...
Contents
From Metaphysics to Molecular Biology | 44 |
From Molecular Biology to Social Theory | 77 |
The Natural Theology of E O Wilson | 96 |
The Popularization of Human Sociobiology | 136 |
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