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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Climate of Opinion and the Study of Evolution -- 2. Stress on Continuity -- 3. Conditions of Early Forms of Cultural Transmission -- 4. Evolutionary Implications of Learning by Empathy, Imitation, and Identification -- 5. Evolutionary Significance of Transmission of Culture through Artifacts -- 6. Borderlines between Learning and Teaching -- Part II -- 7. Directionality of Human Evolution -- 8. The Unit of Cultural Micro-Evolution -- 9. The Paliau Movement in the Admiralties -- Part III -- 10. The Conditions of Conscious Participation in the Evolutionary Process -- 11. The Conditions of Scientific Participation -- 12. Difficulties in Creating Evolutionary Clusters -- 13. An Evolutionary Focus for Thinking -- 14. Ongoing Social Forms -- 15. Possible Forms of Centers with an Evolutionary Potential -- 16. Invoking the Future -- APPENDICES -- A. Micro- and Macro-Cultural Models for Cultural Evolution, Theodore Schwartz and Margaret Mead -- B. Seven Pacific Cultures -- C. Bibliographical Considerations -- Notes -- References -- Index of Sources

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Epistemology after Darwin -- Introduction -- The Principles of Psychology -- The Gay Science -- The Evolution of Self- Consciousness -- The Fixation of Belief -- Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment -- The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy -- Part II. Ethics after Darwin -- Introduction -- The Descent of Man -- The Data of Ethics -- The Challenge of Facts -- The Gospel of Wealth -- Socialism -- Mutual Aid -- Human Progress: Past and Future -- The Right to Make War -- The Call of the Wild -- Principia Ethica: Naturalistic Ethics -- Evolution and Ethics -- Part III. The Evolution of Ideas -- Introduction -- Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme -- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- The Evolutionary Development of Natural Science -- Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination -- Three Challenges for the Survival of Memetics -- Altruism in Science: A Sociobiological Model of Cooperative Behavior among Scientists -- Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized: Evolutionary Epistemology -- Part IV. The Evolution of Rationality -- Introduction -- Kant's Doctrine of the A Priori in the Light of Contemporary Biology -- The View from Somewhere: A Critical Defense of Evolutionary Epistemology -- How the Mind Works -- Evolution, Thinking, and Rationality -- The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the Argument -- Darwin's Doubt, Calvin's Calvary -- Part V. Ethics and Progress -- Introduction -- On Human Nature -- A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation -- Darwinian Conservatism -- Moral Philosophy as Applied Science -- Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics -- A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics -- Part VI. The Evolution of Altruism -- Introduction -- The Liver and the Moral Organ -- Unto Others -- Is Human Morality Innate? -- Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology -- Ethics and Intuitions -- Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach -- The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical Religion -- Thomistic Natural Law and the Limits of Evolutionary Psychology -- An Evolutionary Account of Evil -- Falling Up: Evolution and Original Sin -- SOURCES AND CREDITS -- FURTHER READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX