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Beyond Biofatalism is a lively and penetrating response to the idea that evolutionary psychology reveals human beings to be incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the pressures of climate change, unsustainable population growth, increasing income inequality, and religious extremism, this attitude promises to stifle the creative action we require before we even try to meet these threats. Beyond Biofatalism provides the perspective we need to understand that better societies are not only possible but actively enabled by human nature. Gillian Barker appreciates the methods and findings of evolutionary psychologists, but she considers their work against a broader background to show human nature is surprisingly open to social change. Like other organisms, we possess an active plasticity that allows us to respond dramatically to certain kinds of environmental variation, and we engage in niche construction, modifying our environment to affect others and ourselves. Barker uses related research in social psychology, developmental biology, ecology, and economics to reinforce this view of evolved human nature, and philosophical exploration to reveal its broader implications. The result is an encouraging foundation on which to build better approaches to social, political, and other institutional changes that could enhance our well-being and chances for survival.
Offering an engaging and accessible portrait of the current state
of the field, Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction shows
students how to think philosophically about science and why it is
both essential and fascinating to do so. Gillian Barker and Philip
Kitcher reconsider the core questions in philosophy of science in
light of the multitude of changes that have taken place in the
decades since the publication of C.G. Hempel's classic work,
Philosophy of Natural Science (1966)--both in the field and also in
history and sociology of science and the sciences themselves. They
explore how philosophical questions are connected to vigorous
current debates--including climate change, science and religion,
race, intellectual property rights, and medical research
priorities--showing how these questions, and philosophers' attempts
to answer them, matter in the real world.
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