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monogamy
Moore, G. E.
Moraczewski, Albert
moral
how we are
why we are
moral agents
Moral Animal, The (Wright)
moral behavior
biological roots of
codifying
control mechanisms
evolutionary origins of
expression of
religiosity and
scientific study of
moral choices
in determined universe
in provisional ethics
moral codes
moral culpability
moral dilemma
moral doer
moral flexibility
moral heroism
moral intuition
and Captain Kirk Principle
moral isolationism
moral judgment
moral naturalism
moral nature
moral principles
codification of
first
Ghandhiesque
God and
inflexible
not absolute
not relative
provisional
moral reasoning
balanced with moral intuition
ordinary nature of
stage theory of
thought experiments in
moral receiver
moral sense
acquisition of
evolutionary explanation of
evolved
origins of
moral sentiments
in animals
codified into ethical systems
evolution of
expansion of
Golden Rule
reinforcement of, in religion
universality of
moral society, evolved
moral systems
codified
religiously based
secular
see also ethical systems
morality
absolute v. relative
biological explanation of
core of
defined
distinct from ethics
evolution of
evolutionary origins of
genetic component of
God and
gossip and
group selection and evolution of
how and why of
as human universal
and magic number
model for origins of
new
origins of
psychology of
religion and
science and
theism and atheism and
transcendent
see also absolute morality; provisional morality; relative morality
morphology
Moses
Moss, Cynthia
murder
fuzzy
Muslims
Myers, David G.
myth of pure evil
myth of pure good
myths
Native Americans
natural law
natural law theory
natural solution
and morality
parents selected by
nature, knowledge of
Naturalist (Wilson)
naturalistic fallacy
nature/nurture
Nazis
Neanderthals
necessity
needs
basic
hierarchy of
Neff, Clay Farris
negative pornography
neurons
neuroscience
New Guinea
New Testament morality
Newberg, Andrew
nihilism
Nin, Anaïs
Nixon, Richard
noble savage
nontheism
Novak, Michael
Nozick, Robert
Nuremberg Trials
obedience to authority
objectivism
Obolensky, Laura
Old Testament morality
On Human Nature (Wilson)
orangutans
organized religion
orientation association area (OAA)
origin myths
Origin of Minds, The (La Cerra and Bingham)
Origin of Species, The (Darwin)
“Origin of the Races of Man, The” (Wallace)
Origins of Virtue, The (Ridley)
out-group
out-of-body experiences
oxytocin
Paducah High shootings
paedomorphism
Paleolithic past
adultery in
hunter-gatherers
resource demand/supply
paradigms
Paradise Lost (Milton)
paradox of moral determinism
solutions to
Paradoxical Rage
paranormal (the)
particularity
peaceful native, debunking myth of
Persinger, Michael
personhood
personality traits
philosophy
Pinker, Steven
Pius XI, Pope
Plato
Playing God Myth of cloning
pleasure/pain
pleiotropy
pluralism
PMS defense
political action
political organizations
and frequency of warfare
political path
politics
and religion
of science
Pope, Alexander
Popper, Karl
population
and war/peace
pornography
provisional morality and
pornography defense
positive pornography
power
prayer
premorality, evolution of
pride
primates
domesticated
paedomorphic
personhood rights for
Principia Ethica (Moore)
Principles of Ethics (Spencer)
Prisoner’s Dilemma
probabilities
problem of evil
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
protoman
provisional animal rights
moderation principle
provisional ethics
and abortion
adultery in
evolutionary theory basis of
put to test
science of
provisional libertarianism
provisional morality
and abortion
and adultery
and animal rights
and cloning and genetic engineering
and moral justice
and pornography
and truth telling and lying
provisional naturalism
provisional reality
provisional right and wrong
provisionalism
psychology
animal rights in
insanity defense in
psychology of morality
Pueblo culture war sites
Pufendorf, Samuel
punen
quantum indeterminacy
Quartz, Steven
race(s)
racism
Raelians
Rand, Ayn
Randi, James
rape
rational choice theory of religion
Ratzinger, Cardinal
Rawls, John
Reagan, Ronald
reality
reciprocal altruism
trade and
reciprocity/reciprocation in animals
relative ethics
relative morality
relativism
religion
and absolute morality
and animal right
s
and atrocities
canonized moral principles
codified moral principles
defined
demographics of American
and freedom
group selection in origins of
and morality
politics and
and pornography
prohibition of gossip
science and
as social institution
religions
and cloning
cults evolved into
and fears
function of
moral codes
number and variety of
religiosity and moral behavior
religious absolutism
and intolerance
religious extremism
religious universals
reproductive success
resource supply/demand
responsibility
for choices
for crime
for our actions
rewards and punishments
Richards, Robert
Ridley, Matt
Rifkin, Jeremy
right and wrong
difference between
personal
provisional
religious
secular
sense of
social and political
standard of
right-wrong test
righteousness
rights
rituals
Roe v. Wade
Rosenbaum, Ron
Rosenthal, Robert
Rosner, Fred
Ross, Murray
Rothbard, Murray
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
rule enforcement
Ruse, Michael
Rushdie, Salman
Sabbath, The (Ha-Babli)
sadomasochism (S&M)
Sapolsky, Robert
Schaeffer, Francis
Schindler, Oskar
Schlessinger, Laura
science
and abortion
ascent of modern
claims in
and cloning
experimental methods of
and free will/determinism problem
and human behavior
and insanity defense
as method
methodological naturalism of
and moral determinism
and morality
myths displaced by
and pornography
and religion
tradition of
uncertainty of
Scientific American
scientific provisionalism
scientific worldview
scientism
secular absolutism
secular systems
secularism/secularists
secularization
Segal, Nancy
Segerstråle, Ullica
Sejnowski, Terrence
selection pressures
and aggression
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
self
self-awareness
self-deception
self-interest
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson)
self-serving bias
Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins)
selfishness
Semendeferi, Katerina
sensationalism
separation of church and state
September 11, 2001
serotonin
sex
sex crimes
sex drive
sexual behavior
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Kinsey)
Sexual Bebavior in the Human Male (Kinsey)
sexual fantasy
sexuality
shame
“shock” experiments
Shurden, Frank
Singer, Peter
situational ethics
Skeptic (magazine)
skepticism
slavery
Smith, Adam
Smith, John Maynard
Smith, Ronald
Snelson, Jay Stuart
Sober, Elliott
social behavior
social change
social cohesion
social control
social group
social instinct
social institutions
social intuition
social justice
social relationships
Social Statics (Spencer)
social structure
societies
sociobiology
Sociobiology (Wilson)
sociocultural factors
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Song of Myself (Whitman)
species
species altruism
species selection
speciesism
Spencer, Herbert
Stark, Rodney
state, role of
state societies
states
killing technologies of
liberty
warfare frequency
statistics
Structure of Evolutionary Theory, The (Gould)
subjectivism
Sulloway, Frank
supernatural (the)
Swift, Jonathan
symbolic language animals
Symons, Donald
sympathy
Talmud
Tamarin, Georges
Tavris, Carol
Taxi Driver (movie)
Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, The (Farber)
Ten Commandments
terrorism
Terry, Randall
theism/theists
theodicy
Theory of Justice, A (Rawls)
Thompson, Paul
Tierney, Patrick
Tipler, Frank
tipping
“Tit-for-Tat” strategy
tolerance
individual action accentuating
methodological individualism and
trade
biology of
evolution of
psychology of
and trust
traits, moral/immoral
transcendent empiricism
transcendentalism
tribes
egalitarian
liberty in
morality evolved in
relationships in
selection of
size of
warfare frequency
Trivers, Robert
trust
and trade
truth telling
Trut, Lyudmila N.
Twinkie defense
twins
Unborn Victims of Violence Act
United States
universals, moral and religious
as subset of human
unrequited love
Unto Others (Wilson and Sober)
U.S. Constitution
utilitarianism
validation, outside source of
vampire bats
variation
Vaulting Ambition (Kitcher)
violence
between-group
causes of
reciprocal causality of
religious
solving disputes with
theories of
trade reduces
within-group
among Ynomamö
Voltaire
voluntarism
von Mises, Ludwig
Waddington, C. H.
Wallace, Alfred Russel
war(s)/warfare
death rate from
extremism and
ignoble savage and nature of
of indigenous peoples
in name of God
political organization and frequency of
prehistoric
trade reduces
Ynomamö
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith)
Wheeler, Gregory
Whitaker, Julian
White, Reggie
White, Tim
Why People Believe Weird Things (Shermer)
Wilkinson, Gerald
William of Ockham
Williams, George C.
Wilson, David Sloan
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, James Q.
win-win principle
Wise, Steven M.
women
and adultery
Bible rules regarding
intuition
moral development
in pornography
rights of
Wrangham, Richard
Wright, Robert
Wulff, David
Wynne-Edwards, V. C.
Yanomamö people
Zak, Paul
Zillmann, Dolf
Zimbardo, Philip
Zoba, Wendy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DR. MICHAEL SHERMER is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the cohost and producer of the thirteen-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. He is the author of In Darwin’s Shadow, about the life and science of the codiscoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace; The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience; and Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of historical distortion. The first two books in his trilogy on belief are Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God.
Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, his M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He lives in southern California.
Noted science historian Michael Shermer explores the science behind belief in these titles available from Owl Books
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