Science of Good and Evil

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abortion
absolute ethics
absolute morality
absolutism

binary
see also religious absolutism; secular absolutism

abuse excuse
adaptation
Adaptation and Natural Selection (Williams)
adaptive representational network (ARN)
adultery

provisional morality and

Aeschylus
Age of Enlightenment
Age of Science
aggression
agnosticism/agnostics
Alexander, Richard
altruism

see also reciprocal altruism; species altruism

Ambady, Nalini
America as Christian nation, myth of
American Law Institute (ALI) Test
American Revolution
amity

from enmity to
within-group

anarcho-capitalism
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick)
animal rights
animals

extinction(s)
premoral sentiments

anthropology/anthropologists

human universals in

antihereditarianism
apes

premoral sentiment in

Aphorisms (Epicurus)
“Appointment in Samara” (Maugham)
Aquinas, Thomas
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Asimov, Isaac
ask first principle

with animals
secular right and wrong

Ask God Principle
atheism/atheists
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
autoeroticism
Axelrod, Robert

baboons
Bainbridge, William
bands

liberty in
morality evolved in
relationships in
size of
warfare frequency

Barkow, Jerome
Barna, George
Bastiat, Frederic
Bauer, Gary
Bauer, Yehuda
Baumeister, Roy
Bear, David
Beautiful People Myth (BPM)
behavior control
belief
belief systems
Belyaev, Dmitri
Bentham, Jeremy
Bergmann, Ernst
Bernard of Chartres
Bettinger, Robert
Bible

moral issues in

Bill of Rights
bin Laden, Osama
binary choice
binary logic
binary rights
Bingham, Roger
bioaltruism
Bio-Cultural Evolution model
Bio-Cultural Evolutionary (BCE) Pyramid
biodiversity
biogenetic control
biological determinism
biology

of cooperation
and human behavior

biophilia
Biophilia (Wilson)
biosphere
Blackmun, Harry A.
Blanke, Olaf
Boas, Franz
Boehm, Chris
Boisselier, Brigitte
bonobos

rights

Brady, Sarah
brain

evolution of
large
moral modules in

brain size

animals
and group size and evolutionary history
humans/animals

Branch Davidians
Branden, Nathaniel
Breaking Points (Hinckley and Hinckley)
Breitman, Richard
Brights
Brockhoeft, John
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky)
Brown, Donald E.
Browning, Christopher
Buddhists
Bundy, Ted
Bush, George
Bush, George W.
Buss, David
Byrne, D.

Camus, Albert
cannibalism
Captain Kirk Principle, moral intuition and
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 theory
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 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
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
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 rights
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 Y

nomamö

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
Y

nomamö

Wealth of Nations, The (Smith)
whales
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