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The challenge of the new millennium: Holmes Rolston III asks whether reasoned behaviour is possible in the midst of self-seeking ideologies and ancient appetites

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorThe Philosophers' Magazine, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:00:50Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:00:50Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe biological sciences have developed dramatically in the last half century, raising concerns about their implications for human nature and behavior. While such research can and ought to shape policy, policy equally should critique such research. Science, as much as any other human institution, needs its humanist critics--ethicists, philosophers, theologians, policymakers. We analyze a half-dozen claims coming from biological sciences hoping to demonstrate that half-truths, if taken for the whole, can be both misleading and dangerous. Fortunately scientists are also good at being their own critics. 1. Selfish genes. 2. Genetic destiny. 3. Pleistocene appetites. 4. Monkey's mind. 5. Neuroscience: Bottom up? Top down? 6. Enlightening/escalating self-interest. 7. Ideology: Reasoned governing behavior.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, The Challenge of the New Millennium: Holmes Rolston III Asks Whether Reasoned Behaviour is Possible in the Midst of Self-Seeking Ideologies and Ancient Appetites, TPM: the Philosophers' Magazine 59 (4th Quarter 2012): 30-37.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/80800
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectgenes and behavior
dc.subjectscience policy
dc.subjecthalf-truths
dc.subjectbioscience
dc.subjecthuman behavior
dc.subjectneuroscience
dc.subjectscience and values
dc.subjectgoverning science
dc.titleThe challenge of the new millennium: Holmes Rolston III asks whether reasoned behaviour is possible in the midst of self-seeking ideologies and ancient appetites
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