Preface
Introduction
Part I. In the Wake of the Origin
Moral Sense
Charles Darwin
Ways of Judging Conduct
Herbert Spencer
Evolution and Ethics
Thomas H. Huxley
Part II. In the Wake of Sociobiology
The Morality of the Gene
Edward O. Wilson
The Law of the Jungle: Moral Alternatives and Principles of Evolution
J. L. Mackie
A Biological Interpretation of Moral Systems
R.D. Alexander
The Hypothalmic Imperative
P. Kitcher
Evolutionary Ethics: A Phoenix Arisen
M. Ruse
A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics
R.J. Richards
The Biological Roots of Morality
F.J. Ayala
Huxley's Evolution and Ethics in Sociobiological Perspective
George C. Williams
The Biological Justification of Ethics: A Best-Case Scenario
Alexander Rosenberg
Really Taking Darwin Seriously: An Alternative to Michael Ruse's Darwinian Metaethics
William A. Rottschaefer and David Martinsen
Evolutionary Naturlaism and the Objectivity of Morality
John Collier and Michael Stingl
General Bibliography
Notes on Contemporary Authors
Index