John Lemos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5121133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Lemos |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemos |
| SIGNATURE | LEMOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coe College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3050-503X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kane’s Final and Revised Theory of Libertarian Free Will. A Critical Notice of
Ever since the publication of his masterpiece, The Significance of Free Will (1996), Robert Kane has been the most important and most discussed defender of libertarian free will. It’s been about 29
In Defense of Organizational Evolution
Organizational ecology applies Darwinian principles of natural selection to understand the evolution of new forms of organizations over time. The idea here is that there are different forms of human organizations, such as different business organizations, religious organizations, political organizations, etc. The growth of new forms of organizations within each of these fields is to be understood in terms of a struggle for existence among organiz…
Psychological Hedonism, Evolutionary Biology, and the Experience Machine
In the second half of their recent, critically acclaimed book Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson discuss psychological hedonism. This is the view that avoiding our own pain and increasing our own pleasure are the only ultimate motives people have. They argue that none of the traditional philosophical arguments against this view are good, and they go on to present theirownevolution…
Defense of Naturalistic Naturalized Epistemology
Naturalistic naturalized epistemology combines ontological naturalism with naturalized epistemology. Ontological naturalism is the view that nothing exists other than spatio-temporal beings embedded within a space-time framework. Naturalized epistemology is a view about the nature of knowledge characterized by its commitment to externalism and the idea that knowledge consists in beliefs reliably generated by cognitive mechanisms operating in a su…
A Defense of Darwinian Accounts of Morality
This article is a defense of Michael Ruse’s sociobiological account of the origins and nature of morality. In the piece, the author provides a summary explanation of Ruse’s views and arguments. Then he goes on to explain and critically discuss a variety of objections that have been made against sociobiological accounts of morality. He argues that the criticisms that have been made often work against less sophisticated sociobiological theories but…
The Unity of the Virtues and Its Defenses
In Defense of Organizational Evolution
Organizational ecology applies Darwinian principles of natural selection to understand the evolution of new forms of organizations over time. The idea here is that there are different forms of human organizations, such as different business organizations, religious organizations, political organizations, etc. The growth of new forms of organizations within each of these fields is to be understood in terms of a struggle for existence among organiz…
The Unity of the Virtues and Its Defenses
Psychological Hedonism, Evolutionary Biology, and the Experience Machine
In the second half of their recent, critically acclaimed book Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson discuss psychological hedonism. This is the view that avoiding our own pain and increasing our own pleasure are the only ultimate motives people have. They argue that none of the traditional philosophical arguments against this view are good, and they go on to present theirownevolution…
The Unity of the Virtues and Its Defenses
A Defense of Darwinian Accounts of Morality
This article is a defense of Michael Ruse’s sociobiological account of the origins and nature of morality. In the piece, the author provides a summary explanation of Ruse’s views and arguments. Then he goes on to explain and critically discuss a variety of objections that have been made against sociobiological accounts of morality. He argues that the criticisms that have been made often work against less sophisticated sociobiological theories but…
Defense of Naturalistic Naturalized Epistemology
Naturalistic naturalized epistemology combines ontological naturalism with naturalized epistemology. Ontological naturalism is the view that nothing exists other than spatio-temporal beings embedded within a space-time framework. Naturalized epistemology is a view about the nature of knowledge characterized by its commitment to externalism and the idea that knowledge consists in beliefs reliably generated by cognitive mechanisms operating in a su…
Psychological Hedonism, Evolutionary Biology, and the Experience Machine
In the second half of their recent, critically acclaimed book Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson discuss psychological hedonism. This is the view that avoiding our own pain and increasing our own pleasure are the only ultimate motives people have. They argue that none of the traditional philosophical arguments against this view are good, and they go on to present theirownevolution…
In Defense of Organizational Evolution
Organizational ecology applies Darwinian principles of natural selection to understand the evolution of new forms of organizations over time. The idea here is that there are different forms of human organizations, such as different business organizations, religious organizations, political organizations, etc. The growth of new forms of organizations within each of these fields is to be understood in terms of a struggle for existence among organiz…
Kane’s Final and Revised Theory of Libertarian Free Will. A Critical Notice of
Ever since the publication of his masterpiece, The Significance of Free Will (1996), Robert Kane has been the most important and most discussed defender of libertarian free will. It’s been about 29
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 works) · Darwinism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works)