Evolving Ethics - Imprint Academic

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This book describes the application of Artificial Life simulation to evolutionary scenarios of wide ethical interest, including the evolution of altruism, rape and abortion, providing a new meaning to "experimental philosophy". The authors also apply evolutionary ALife techniques to explore contentious issues within evolutionary theory itself, such as the evolution of aging. They justify these uses of simulation in science and philosophy, both in general and in their specific applications here. Evolving Ethics will be of interest to researchers, enthusiasts, students and interested lay readers in the fields of Artificial Life, philosophy of science, ethics, agent- and individual-based modeling in ecology and the social sciences, computer simulation, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology and the social sciences.
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"The authors clearly make a strong case for the usefulness of simulations as an experimental methodology... Examination of Aristotle's virtue ethics, Kant's categorical imperitavism, Socrates' consequentialism, Epicurus' hedonism (egoism) and utilitarianism, identifies act utilitarianism as the best (in this case) underlying theory for developing simulations that can be applied to the evolutionary ethics domain."
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- Publication Date: 01 November 2010
- ISBN-13: 9781845402068
- Extent: Main content page count : 280
- Code: 1845402065
- Dimensions: 15.5 x 22.6 x 2 cm
- Weight: 500 grams
- List Price: £17.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Evolving Ethics
Subtitle: The New Science of Good and Evil
Author: Steven Mascaro, Kevin B. Korb, Ann E. Nicholson, Owen Woodberry
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Imprint Academic

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