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Conjectures and Confrontations - Science, Evolution, Social Concern (Paperback)
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Conjectures and Confrontations - Science, Evolution, Social Concern (Paperback)
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This is the third in the series of volumes of essays that Robin Fox
began with Reproduction and Succession and continued with The
Challenge of Anthropology. Fox who has been described as "the
conscience of anthropology" continues to have the same aim: to
expose readers in the social sciences and beyond to the
consequences of "the biosocial orientation," and to assess the
"state of the art" in anthropology in particular and the social
sciences in general. As always he encompasses a wide range of
topics: Why do bureaucracies fail? Are we really an innovative
animal? Is nationalism a purely constructed phenomenon? What is the
role of sexual competition in epic literature? In all these
enquiries he tries to show in non-technical language how the
evolutionary approach throws new light on old problems--and even
raises new and more interesting problems. He pursues the issue of
whether we have a naturally developed moral sense, and if so what
it could possibly be (on the way attempting a definitive definition
of the good); he looks at the status of the idea of self-interest
in economic and biological science; he examines the current state
of archaeology as a basis for a renewed scientific anthropology;
and he tries to adjudicate the debate between the scientific and
humanistic camps in the social sciences.
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