An introduction to evolutionary ethics / Scott M. James. 6
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; Chichester, West Sussex, UK :; Wiley-Blackwell, ©201146Edition: Description: 23 cm. ix, 228 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405193962 (paperback : alk. paper)ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Ethics, Evolutionary -- -- 20 -- Textbooks | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | 171.7 J236i 2011 LOC classification: | BJ1311 | .J36 20112Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-224) and index.
Natural selection and human nature -- The (earliest) roots of right -- The caveman's conscience -- Just deserts -- The science of virtue and vice -- Social harmony, the good, the bad, and the biologically ugly -- Hume's law -- Moore's naturalistic fallacy -- Rethinking Moore and Hume -- Evolutionary anti-realism : early efforts -- Contemporary evolutionary anti-realism -- Options for the evolutionary realist.
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The subject of reconciling our evolutionary past with our sense of right and wrong is undergoing a resurgent wave of interest. The timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics offers the first general introductory text to this area, presenting students with three different areas of ongoing research related to evolution and morality: cognitive psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics. -- The text is divided into two sections. Part I explores the cognitive psychological question of howûif at allûour moral sense evolved. Part II reviews both historical and recent efforts to derive moral norms and draws conclusions about the objectivity of morality from biological facts about our evolutionary Past. --Book Jacket.
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