The radical–liberal feminist perspective on rape posits that the assault is motivated by power
and control rather than sexual gratification and is a violent rather than a sexual act …

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an
extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, analysing recent research to …

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human
behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus …

The disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics. In the 1920s and
1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across …

Abstract Foot (2001), Hursthouse (1999), and Thompson (2008), along with other
philosophers, have argued for a metaethical position, the natural goodness approach, that …

Evolutionary biology–or, more precisely, two (purported) applications of Darwin's theory of
evolution by natural selection, namely, evolutionary psychology and what has been called …

Neo-Aristotelian metaethical naturalism is a modern attempt at naturalizing ethics using
ideas from Aristotle's teleological metaphysics. Proponents of this view argue that moral …

Science plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular
understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have experienced completed …

Abstract Interpretations of human nature driven by scientific analyses of the origin and
development of the human species often assume metaphysical naturalism. This generates …

In order to provide the context for this special issue of Contemporary Social Science, a brief
review of the biological and evolutionary explanations of psychological and socio-cultural …