EVOLUTION'S FIRST PHILOSOPHER -- Contents -- Reading Guide -- 1. Evolution and Philosophy -- INTRODUCTION -- DARWIN'S INFLUENCE ON DEWEY -- RUSSELL'S REJECTION OF EVOLUTION -- WHAT ABOUT GENETIC DETERMINISM? -- ULTRANATURALISM -- THE DISCUSSION THUS FAR -- CONSIDER READING -- PART ONE: Theory of Evolution -- 2. What Is Darwinian Evolution? -- INTRODUCTION -- SOURCES OF VARIATION -- THREE KINDS OF SELECTION -- THE X AND Y CHROMOSOMES -- Lamarckian Evolution -- The Discussion Thus Far -- CONSIDER READING -- 3. Preparedness versus Plasticity -- DEWEY AND UNLEARNED ACTIVITIES -- WHERE IMPULSES COME FROM -- PREPAREDNESS VERSUS PLASTICITY -- IS EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY INNATE? -- THE DISCUSSION THUS FAR -- CONSIDER READING -- 4. Brain Development and the Emergence of Mind -- THE TRIUNE VIEW OF THE BRAIN -- THE BRAIN AND INFORMATION PROCESSING -- NEURON ELIMINATION -- THE THEORY OF MEMES -- FROM CONSCIOUSNESS TO MINDEDNESS -- THE MIND AS A VIRTUAL MACHINE -- THE DISCUSSION THUS FAR -- CONSIDER READING -- PART TWO: Morality Naturalized -- 5. Can Evolution Tell us What to Do? -- DOES NATURAL SELECTION HAVE FORESIGHT? -- THE PROBLEM OF THE NORMATIVE -- DEWEY'S SOLUTION -- DEMOCRACY AS MEANS -- INTELLIGENCE AS END -- MEANS-ENDS LOGIC -- CONSIDER READING -- 6. Democracy and theBaldwin Effect -- INTELLIGENCE AS INHERENTLY SOCIAL -- THE MORAL CONTEXT OF GROWTH -- DEWEY'S CRITERIA FOR DEMOCRACY -- THE BALDWIN EFFECT -- DEMOCRACY AND THE BALDWIN EFFECT -- MEMEOPATHY AS AN OBSTACLE TO GROWTH -- DEVELOPING AUTONOMOUS AGENTS -- PHILOSOPHY FOR A SMALL PLANET -- THE DISCUSSION THUS FAR -- CONSIDER READING -- 7. Evolution and Liberalism -- INTRODUCTION -- THREE VIEWS OF THE INDIVIDUAL-SOCIETY RELATIONSHIP -- CLASSICAL LIBERALISM -- DEWEY'S NEW LIBERALISM -- WHY NONDEMOCRATIC SCHOOLS ARE MISEDUCATIVE -- THOMAS WEST'S ATTACK ON DEWEY'S PROGRESSIVE LIBERALISM.

THOMAS WEST VERSUS THOMAS JEFFERSON -- IS DEWEY'S THEORY OF MIND TOO OPTIMISTIC? -- CONCLUSION -- CONSIDER READING -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.