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 ...
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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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700. Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Scant pencil markings. Dust jacket is edge worn, with some bumping to edges. Previous owner names to FFEP. 700 pages.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in very good dust jacket, wear to the dust jacket including creasing and light tearing. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Review slip loosely inserted.
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Very Good+ 0226712001. Few spots on cover, review copy stamp on endpaper; Science And Its Conceptual Foundations Series; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches; 718 pages.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Very light shelf wear on the board edges. Former woners name on the first page. A few small dark spots on the page fore edges. The dust jacket has mild overall wear and rubbing with a small tear at the top spine end. University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hardcover First Edition, Second Printing. The book condition is Good. The dust jacket condition is Good.