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Paul Sheldon Davies is the author of Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions. He teaches philosophy at the College of William and Mary.
A Progressive Orientation: Naturalism as Exploration | p. 1 |
The Vividness of Truth: Darwin's Romantic Rhetoric and the Evolutionary Framework | p. 3 |
Our Most Vexing Problem: Conceptual Conservatism and Conceptual Imperialism | p. 19 |
Naturalism as Exploration: The Elements of Reform | p. 35 |
The Allure of Agency: 'Purpose' in Biology | p. 53 |
The Real Heart of Darwinian Evolutionary Biology | p. 55 |
A Formative Power of a Self-Propagating Kind: Natural Purposes and the Concept Location Project | p. 76 |
A Persistent Mode of Understanding: The Psychological Power of 'Purpose' | p. 104 |
The Illusions of Agency: 'Free Will' and 'Moral Responsibility' | p. 135 |
The Death of an Aphorism: The Psychology of Free Will | p. 137 |
The Bare Possibility of Our Opinion: Libertarian Imperialism | p. 170 |
Words Give Us a Special Ability: Compatibilist Conservatism | p. 193 |
Appendix | p. 227 |
Notes | p. 229 |
Appreciation and Acknowledgments | p. 239 |
References | p. 243 |
Index | p. 253 |
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