{"product_id":"flowers-and-honeybees-a-study-of-morality-in-nature-9789004430969","title":"Flowers and Honeybees: A Study of Morality In Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan we discover morality in nature? Flowers and Honeybees extends the considerable scientific knowledge of flowers and honeybees through a philosophical discussion of the origins of morality in nature. Flowering plants and honeybees form a social group where each requires the other. They do not intentionally harm each other, both reason, and they do not compete for commonly required resources. They also could not be more different. Flowering plants are rooted in the ground and have no brains. Mobile honeybees can communicate the location of flower resources to other workers. We can learn from a million-year-old social relationship how morality can be constructed and maintained over time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Preface: Introducing the Meadow    Introduction   1 The Question This Study Explores   2 The Shape of This Study   Cited References    1 Optimization, MEP, and Mutualism   1 Introduction   2 Optimization   3 Maximum Entropy Production (MEP)   4 Mutualism   Cited References    2 Emergence of the Flower and Honeybee Mutualism and Flower and Honeybee Ontology and Morphology   1 Introduction   2 Evolution of the Flower Honeybee Mutualism   3 Emergence   4 Angiosperm Morphology   5 Flower Morphology   6 Honeybee Eusociality and Morphology   7 The Moral Honeybee   Cited References    3 Flower and Honeybee Epistemology and Behavior   1 Introduction   2 Angiosperm Epistemology and Behavior   3 Plant Intelligence—a Philosophical Discussion   4 Honeybee Epistemology and Behavior   5 Consciousness in Flowers and Honeybees   6 Moral Elegance   Cited References    4 Epigenetics   1 Epigenetics Defined   2 Promise of Epigenetics   3 Epigenetic Purposes   4 General Implications of Epigenetics   5 Implications of Epigenetics for Flowers and Honeybees   Cited References    5 The Good and the Emergence of Morality in the Flower and Honeybee Mutualism   1 Introduction   2 Asymmetricity   3 Responsibility   4 Reciprocal Responsibility   5 Up from Value   6 Hospitality   7 Pragmatic Naturalism   8 Altruism   9 Singer’s Requirements for Morality to Emerge Applied to Flowers and Honeybees   10 Epigenetic Rules   11 Naturalistic Fallacies and Naturalistic Facts   12 Flower and Honeybee Oughts and Obligates   13 Morality in Nature   Cited References    6 Study Summary and a Critique of Maximization   1 Study Summary   2 A Brief and Preliminary Critique of Maximization   Cited References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210801209687,"sku":"9789004430969","price":47.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flowers-and-honeybees-a-study-of-morality-in-nature-9789004430969","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}