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Books

Evolutionary Naturalism by Michael Ruse

Roger Caldwell looks at science with Michael Ruse.

Science and philosophy haven’t always travelled happily in tandem, and there will be many who may wonder, looking at the title of this book, what intrinsic connection there may be between the theory of evolution and the traditional problems of philosophy. The yoking together of evolution and ethics that Michael Ruse proposes has an unfortunate pedigree. The notorious excesses of Social Darwinism in the nineteenth century were supposedly defeated at the beginning of the twentieth with a knockdown argument by G.E. Moore known as the Naturalistic Fallacy.

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