Saturday, March 28, 2009

Westermarck and Incest Laws

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I have written a number of posts on Edward Westermarck's Darwinian theory of the incest taboo, one of which can be found here . Westerma...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Revised Book Project: "Natural Right and Biology"

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After receiving suggestions from various people and thinking more about it myself, I now have a revised version of my book project-- NATURAL...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Nietzsche and "Morality as Animal"

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My new book project will probably have to include a chapter on Friedrich Nietzsche, because Nietzsche was one of the first philosophers to t...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

"Natural Right and Biology"--A Book Project

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This week, I have been celebrating my appointment as a "Presidential Research Professor" at Northern Illinois University, which wi...
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Darwin at the University of Chicago's Basic Program Retreat

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The Basic Program in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago is a "great books" program that was originally established by R...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Insect Politics

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Ant farms don't seem to be as popular today with young boys as they were when I was a boy. There were plastic ant farms that allowed ant...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

Shadia Drury on Aquinas's Betrayal of Natural Law

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Shadia Drury is a professor of political philosophy at the University of Regina in Canada. She is best known for her criticisms of Leo Stra...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Yuck Factor and the Evolution of Moral Disgust

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Conservatives often appeal to moral emotions such as disgust and anger as important for moral judgment. One example is conveyed in a phrase ...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Darwinian Natural Right in Primitive Law

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My conception of Darwinian natural right includes an account of law. A full account of social order requires a nested hierarchy of three kin...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Adam Gopnik on Darwin and Lincoln

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It is a remarkable coincidence that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day 200 years ago--February 12, 1809. In some p...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Debating Darwin at Forbes.com

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The bicentennial of Darwin's birth has brought lots of media attention to the continuing debate over the scientific, moral, political, a...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Evolutionary Psychology's Slow Acceptance of Darwinian Morality

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One sign of the radical character of Charles Darwin's ideas is that even some of his strongest supporters have rejected much of his thin...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Evolution and Thomistic Natural Law: A Reply to Stephen Pope

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I have often argued that a Darwinian view of evolved human nature supports traditional natural law reasoning, particularly as developed by T...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Another Response from John Lemos

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John Lemos has sent me the following response to my last blog post on his comments. "When I say that I have no special interest in defi...

Barack Obama Is No Abraham Lincoln

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For a couple of months now, we have been told that Barack Obama's First Inaugural Address was going to be comparable to Abraham Lincoln...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Another Reply to Lemos

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I have posted John Lemos' response to my earlier comments on his book Commonsense Darwinism . In reading his response, a few thoughts c...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

John Lemos on the Good Human Life

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Recently, I wrote a blog post responding to John Lemos' new book Commonsense Darwinism . He has written a reply, and he has given me per...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Is Human Nature a Superstition? A Response to David Buller

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Over the past twenty years, evolutionary psychology has become remarkably influential, particularly among psychologists and anthropologists....
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