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title	:	The Natural Selection of Autonomy SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology
author	:	Waller, Bruce N.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0791438201
print isbn13	:	9780791438206
ebook isbn13	:	9780585092225
language	:	English
subject	Autonomy (Philosophy) , Responsibility, Biology--Philosophy, Animal welfare, Ethics, Evolutionary.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	B808.67.W35 1998eb
ddc	:	128
subject	:	Autonomy (Philosophy) , Responsibility, Biology--Philosophy, Animal welfare, Ethics, Evolutionary.

The Natural Selection of Autonomy

SUNY Series, Philosophy and Biology David Edward Shaner, Editor

The Natural Selection of Autonomy Bruce N. Waller State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1998 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246 Production by Diane Ganeles Marketing by Nancy Farrell Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Waller, Bruce N., 1946 The natural selection of autonomy / Bruce N. Waller. p. cm. (SUNY series, philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3819-8 (hardcover: alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3820-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Autonomy (Philosophy) 2. Responsibility. 3. Biology -Philosophy. 4. Animal welfare. 5. Ethics, Evolutionary. I. Title. II. Series: SUNY series in philosophy and biology. B808.67.W35 1998 128dc2197-37753 CIP l0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For my schoolteacher mother, Lorena Norris Waller, who dearly loved books, and who, God rest her soul, would not have agreed with a word of this one.

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Natural Autonomy and Alternative Possibilities 5 Chapter Three: Natural Authenticity 17 Chapter Four: Moral Responsibility 31 Chapter Five: Responsibility and the Self-Made Serf 41 Chapter Six: Virtue, Vice, and Moral Responsibility 51 Chapter Seven: Moral Development without Moral Responsibility 67 Chapter Eight: Bitter Fruits, Just Deserts, and Natural Consequences 81 Chapter Nine: Morality without Reason 97 Chapter Ten: What Reason Adds to Animal Morality 113 Chapter Eleven: The Moral Foundations 127 Chapter Twelve: Darwinian Moral Nonobjectivism 143

Page viii Chapter Thirteen: Conclusion: Darwinist Care Ethics 155 Notes 167 References 181 Index 191

Page ix Acknowledgments This book developed out of several years of thinking and writing, and during that time I have received help and encouragement from many people. I am deeply grateful to all of them, though someseeing the claims made in this bookmay now repent themselves of their roles as co-conspirators.

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