"Bradie's is the first book to specifically focus upon the relationship between revolu tionary ethics and evolutionary epistemology The literature is filled with contro verly largely due to scholars pulling from both traditions without careful regard for ther differences and presuppositions. Bradie uses his analytic philosophical training to clarify the positions of virtually every scholar from the eighteenth century to the present time, who has had something important to say about the relatiorisho between evolution and ethics. As if this superb philosophical reconstruction were not enough, Bradie also develops a position of his own that will surely attract as much attention as the works of Michael Ruse, Robert Richards, R. G. Alexander E O Wilson, and Peter Singer Bradie's reconstructive analysis and original thesis wil make a valuable contribution to the field" -David Edward Sharier Furman University.