Why war? / Christopher Coker.
By: Coker, Christopher [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2021Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197610909 (ebook) :Subject(s): War and society | War (Philosophy) | War -- Moral and ethical aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197602737DDC classification: 303.66 LOC classification: HM554Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions - how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the features that define it as a species? These are the four questions of the Tinbergen Method for explaining animal behaviour, developed by the Nobel Prizewinning Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen. This book contends that applying this method to war - which is unique to humans - can help us better understand why conflict is so resilient. Christopher Coker explores these four questions of our past and present, and looks at our post-human future, assessing how far scientific advances in gene-editing, robotics and AI systems will de-centre human agency.
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions - how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the features that define it as a species? These are the four questions of the Tinbergen Method for explaining animal behaviour, developed by the Nobel Prizewinning Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen. This book contends that applying this method to war - which is unique to humans - can help us better understand why conflict is so resilient. Christopher Coker explores these four questions of our past and present, and looks at our post-human future, assessing how far scientific advances in gene-editing, robotics and AI systems will de-centre human agency.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2021).