Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics (eBook)

Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1st ed. 2021
XI, 223 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-68802-8 (ISBN)

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A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and biological origins. The present literature has focused on the link between evolution and moral realism: if our moral beliefs enhance fitness, does this mean they track moral truths? In spite of the growing empirical evidence, these discussions tend to remain high-level: the mere fact that morality has evolved is often deemed enough to decide questions in normative and meta-ethics. This volume starts from the assumption that the details about the evolution of morality do make a difference, and asks how. It presents original essays by authors from various disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, developmental psychology, and primatology, who write in conversation with neuroscience, sociology, and cognitive psychology.

Johan De Smedt has co-authored A natural history of natural theology. The cognitive science of theology and philosophy of religion (MIT Press, 2015) and The Challenge of Evolution to Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and published empirically-informed philosophy of science, religion, and art.

Helen De Cruz is holder of the Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University, Missouri, US. Her publications are in empirically-informed philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of religion, social epistemology, and metaphilosophy. She is author of, recently, Religious Disagreement (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-editor of Philosophy through Science Fiction Stories. Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Synthese Library
• Reihe/Serie: Synthese Library
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 223 p. 7 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Schlagworte: Archeology Morality • Archeology Philosophy • Chimpanzee ethics • Cultural evolution morality • developmental perspective evolutionary ethics • Empirical resources evolutionary ethics • Evolutionary Basis Moral Beliefs • Evolutionary debunking moral realism • Evolutionary ethics • evolution morality ethics • Evolution parochial altruism • Gene culture evolution morality • inclusive sympathy evolution • Link Evolution Moral Realism • Moralities across cultures • Morality evolution • Morality Mesoamerica • prehistory ethics • Psychological foundation morality
• ISBN-10: 3-030-68802-X / 303068802X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-68802-8 / 9783030688028