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Science of Good and Evil

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by Michael Shermer


  Carneal, Michael

  Carpenter, William

  Carter, Jimmy

  Casti connubii (Pius XI)

  Categorical Imperative

  causal net

  causal net theory of determinism

  causality/causes

  ignorance of

  natural

  Chagnon, Napoleon

  Chait, Israel

  chaos and complexity theory

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Check, James

  Chewong

  chiefdoms

  liberty

  warfare frequency

  chimpanzees

  food sharing in

  premoral sentiments in

  rights for

  violence among

  Christianity

  Christians

  Cicero

  City Slickers (film)

  civilization(s)

  Clark, Russell

  Clinton, Bill

  cloning

  myths about

  provisional morality and

  cognitive biases

  cognitive neuroscience

  cognitive psychology

  Columbine High School massacre

  Coming of Age in Samoa (Mead)

  community(ies)

  compatibilism

  competition

  between groups

  competitiveness

  tension with cooperation

  computer-game theory of violence

  confirmation bias

  conflict resolution

  consequentialism

  Consilience (Wilson)

  context

  in moral development

  psychological states dependent on

  contingency

  contingeny-necessity, model of

  contractarianism

  cooperation

  in animals

  in bands

  biology of

  defining

  reinforcing

  religion and

  tension with competitiveness

  trade and

  Constant Battles (LeBlanc)

  cortex

  dolphins

  creation myths

  Cro-Magnons

  cultural evolution

  cultural history

  cultural selection

  culture(s)

  of fear

  forces of

  universals in

  D4DR gene

  Damiens, Robert-Francois

  D’Aquili, Eugene

  Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney)

  Darwin, Charles

  gradualism

  Darwinian natural right

  Darwinism

  Darwin’s Cathedral (Wilson)

  Darwin’s Dictum

  Data of Ethics, The (Spencer)

  Davis, David Brion

  Dawes, Robyn

  Dawidowicz, Lucy

  Dawkins, Richard

  Dawson, Addison L.

  de Waal, Frans

  death, and fuzzy logic

  deception

  deep time

  Defenders of the Truth (Segerstråle)

  deism

  DeLay, Tom

  Denmark

  Dennett, Daniel

  deontology

  depression

  Descartes, Rene

  Descent of Man, The (Darwin)

  determined universe

  moral choices in

  determinism

  free will and problem of

  Hinckley and problem of

  and the law

  determinism defense

  Diamond, Jared

  dichotomizing,

  Diener, Edward

  discipline, lack of

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Divine Command Theory

  divine right of kings

  division of labor

  divorce

  dogs and cats

  premoral sentiments in

  and rights

  dolphins

  rights for

  Doom (computer game)

  dopamine

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Drawing the Line (Wise)

  Dunbar, Robin

  Durham Test

  Dworkin, Andrea

  ecocide economic growth, trust in

  economy, animal rights and

  Edgerton, Robert

  Eichmann, Adolf

  either-or fallacy

  Elbow Room (Dennett)

  Eldredge, Niles

  Ellis, Havelock

  Emerson, Alfred

  emotions

  emotivism

  empires

  empiricism

  Enlightenment

  enmity

  between-group

  Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, An (Hume)

  environment

  and behavior

  interaction with genes

  manipulating

  use of

  Epicurus

  epistemology

  equality

  erotic-fierce people

  erotica

  Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)

  Essay on Man, An (Pope)

  essence(s)

  ethical dilemmas

  ethical egoism theory

  ethical (psychological) egoism

  ethical sentiments

  ethical systems

  absolute

  basis of

  evolution of

  fuzzy

  improving on

  moral sentiments codified into

  provisional

  relative

  theistic

  ethics

  biblical

  defined

  evolution ennobles

  evolutionary theory in

  gossip and

  morality distinct from

  scientific analysis of

  secular

  theistic

  see also absolute ethics; provisional ethics; relative ethics

  ethnoreligionists

  Euthyphro, The (Plato)

  Euthyphro’s Dilemma

  evil

  banality of

  explaining

  fuzzy

  see also myth of pure evil; problem of evil

  evolution

  ennobles ethics

  of evolutionary ethics

  free will and

  hierarchical theory of

  and human behavior

  moral phenomena in

  and moral sentiments

  pluralistic and hierarchical model of

  progressive nature of

  theory of

  evolution wars

  evolutionary biology/biologists

  evolutionary ethics

  ennobling

  evolution of

  stages of

  evolutionary heritage

  evolutionary history and group size and brain size

  evolutionary psychology/psychologists

  evolutionary theory

  adultery in

  basis of provisional ethics

  and ethics

  free will/determinism problem

  hierarchical

  exchange reciprocity

  exclusive fitness

  explanation function of religion

  extended family

  existentialism

  extinction

  extremism

  Fackenheim, Emil

  faith, loss of

  family(ies)

  Farber, Paul

  fetus

  rights of

  when becomes human

  Feynman, Richard

  fideism

  Final Solution

  Fisher, W. A.

  Flanagan, Owen

  food sharingof

  Foster, Jodie

  Frankel, Max

  Franzblau, Abraham

  free market

  free will

  and chaos and complexity theoryr />
  evil and

  and evolution

  and fuzzy logic

  and genetics

  and indeterminism

  and neuroscience

  as useful fiction

  free will/determinism problem

  Freedom Evolves (Dennett)

  freedoms

  Freeman, Derek

  French Revolution

  Fried, Itzhak

  Friedman, Milton

  Frith, Chris

  Frith, Uta

  frontal cortex

  fuzzy animal rights

  fuzzy fractions

  fuzzy freedom

  fuzzy logic

  in animal rights

  case study in

  and death

  and evil

  free will and

  of provisional morality

  science grounded in

  fuzzy logic analysis

  fuzzy machines

  fuzzy morality

  fuzzy provisionalism

  game theory

  Gandhian morality

  Gardner, Martin

  gays

  Gell-Mann, Murray

  gender equality

  gene-environment interactionism

  genes

  Genesis myth

  genetic determinism

  genetic engineering, II provisional morality and

  Genetic Range of Potential model

  genetics

  free will and

  genocide

  Ghiselin, Michael

  Gilbert, G. M.

  Gilligan, Carol

  Gingrich, Newt

  Glassner, Barry

  God

  being good without

  belief in

  cloning

  evolution of

  existence of

  extremism in name of

  amd moral principles

  and morality.

  omnipotence

  and problem of evil

  and right and wrong

  works through politics

  God question

  gods

  Goeth, Amon

  Golden Rule

  behavioral expression of

  historical and universal expression of

  Goldhagen, Daniel

  Goldwater, Barry

  good

  being, without God

  Good, Ken

  Goodall, Jane

  gorillas

  rights

  gossip

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  Grabner, Maximillian

  Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)

  Greene,Joshua

  Grief Observed, A (Lewis)

  Grotius, Hugo

  group(s)

  see also social group

  group selection

  and evolution of morality

  shift from individual to

  soft/hard

  group size

  and brain size and evolutionary history

  optimal

  guilt

  Ha-Babli, Hillel

  Haidt, Jonathan

  Haldane, J. B. S

  Hamer, Dean

  Hamilton, William

  happiness

  happiness principle

  Harris, Eric

  Hartman, David

  Hatfield, Elaine

  Hauerwas, Stanley M.

  Hazlitt, Henry

  hedonic calculus

  Heisenberg, Werner

  Heisenberg uncertainty principle

  Henley, William Ernest

  heredity

  heroic nature of humanity

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hinckley, Jack

  Hinckley, JoAnn

  Hinckley, John W., Jr.

  fuzzy deterioration of

  guilt of

  and paradox of moral determinism

  hindsight bias

  Hindus

  Hirschi, Travis

  historical pathway(s)

  history

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Goldhagen)

  Holdaway, R. N.

  Holocaust

  Holstein, Ned

  hominids equal rights for

  Homo erectus

  Homo heidelbergensis

  Homo neanderthalensis

  Homo sapiens

  homosexuality

  How We Believe (Shermer)

  Howell, Signe

  human

  distinct from person

  human behavior

  changing attitudes toward

  evolution of

  methodological individualism in

  moral/immoral

  science and

  human history, progress in

  human nature

  application of fuzzy logic to

  erotic side of

  fierce side of

  free or determined

  maleable condition of

  moral/immoral

  moral nature part of

  nature of

  Human Rights and Dignity Myth of cloning

  humanism

  humanity

  projects for

  humans

  evolution of

  moral/immoral

  pattern-seeking, storytelling animals

  social evolution of

  Hume, David

  hunter-gatherers

  hunting, fishing, and gathering (HFG)

  Hutterites

  Huxley, Aldous

  Huxley, Julian

  Huxley, Thomas Henry

  hyperadaptationism

  Hypothetical Imperative

  I, Robot (Asimov)

  Identical Personhood Myth of cloning

  ignoble savage within

  immoral

  how we are.

  why we are

  immoral sense

  In Darwin’s Shadow (Shermer)

  inclusive fitness

  inclusiveness

  expanding circle of

  indeterminism

  Index of Leading Spiritual Indicators (Barna)

  indigenous peoples

  indirect/blind altruism

  individualism/individuality

  Ingersoll, Robert G.

  in-group

  in-group/outgroup evolutionary model

  in-group morality, evolution of

  insanity defense

  Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984,

  intellect, and intuition

  Into the Heart (Good)

  intolerance

  from, to tolerance

  religious absolutism and

  secular absolutism and

  Invictus (Henley)

  Islam

  Issues in Evolutionary Ethics (Thompson)

  Jainism

  Japan

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jesus

  Jews

  Judaism

  Judeo-Christian values

  justice

  provisional

  Kant, Immanuel

  Keeley, Lawrence

  Kelley, Douglas

  Kentucky high school killings

  kin altruism

  kin selection

  Kinsey, Alfred

  Kitcher, Philip

  Klebold, Dylan

  “knowing” people, intuition in

  Koch, Christof

  Kohlberg, Lawrence

  Konkola, Kari

  Kosko, Bart

  Krech, Shepard

  Kreiman, Gabriel

  Kutchinsky, Berl

  La Cerra, Peggy

  Laci and Connor’s Law

  language

  see also symbolic language

  Lanzmann, Claude

  Laplace, Marquis de

  Laplace’s demon

  law

  animal rights in

  fuzzy

  and insanity defense

  moral determinism and

  law of causality

  law of large numbers

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bsp; law of the excluded middle

  Lawrence, D. H.

  laws of nature

  LeBlanc, Steven A.

  Leibniz, Gottfried

  Lennon, John

  Lewis, Bernard

  Lewis, C. S.

  Lewontin, Richard

  libertarianism

  liberty

  spread of

  liberty principle

  in abortion

  and animal rights

  social and political right and wrong

  liberty rights for animals

  lie detection

  life

  probability assigned to

  reverence for

  when begins

  “Limits of Natural Selection as Applied to Man” (Wallace)

  Little Birds (Nin)

  Lizot, Jacques

  Locke, John

  Low, Bobbi

  Lukacs, John

  lying

  M Notebook (Darwin)

  McCabe, Kevin

  McCaughey septuplets

  MacKinnon, Catherine

  magic number , morality and

  “make love, not war,”

  Malamuth, Neil

  mammals

  premoral sentiments

  rights for

  “Many Person Dilemma,”

  Maoris

  Margaret Mead and Samoa (Freeman)

  Maslow, Abraham

  Maugham, William Somerset

  Mayr, Ernst

  Mead, Margaret

  mechanistic worldview

  media sensationalism

  Mein Kampf (Hitler)

  memes

  men

  mental pornography

  metaphysics

  methodological individualism

  Milgram, Stanley

  Milton, John

  mind

  creation of

  M’Naghten, Daniel

  M’Naghten Test

  moa birds

  moderation

  moderation principle

  animal rights

  Moll, Jorge

  monkeys

 

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