Empirically engaged evolutionary ethics
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Empirically engaged evolutionary ethics
（Synthese library, v. 437）
Springer, c2021
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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.
Table of Contents
1. Situating empirically engaged evolutionary ethicsJohan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz
Part I. The nuts and bolts of evolutionary ethics2. Dual-process theories, cognitive decoupling and the outcome-to-intent shift: A developmental perspective on evolutionary ethicsGordon P. D. Ingram and Camilo Moreno-Romero
3. Not so hypocritical after all: Belief revision is adaptive and often unnoticedNeil Levy
4. The chimpanzee stone accumulation ritual and the evolution of moral behaviorJames B. Harrod
Part II. The evolution of moral cognition 5. Morality as an Evolutionary ExaptationMarcus Arvan
6. Social animals and the potential for morality: On the cultural exaptation of behavioral capacities required for normativityEstelle Palao
7. Against the evolutionary debunking of morality: Deconstructing a philosophical mythAlejandro Rosas
Part III. The cultural evolution of morality8. The cultural evolution of extended benevolenceAndres Carlos Luco
9. The contingency of the cultural evolution of morality, debunking, and theism vs. naturalismMatthew Braddock
10. Morality as cognitive scaffolding in the nucleus of the Mesoamerican cosmovisionAlfredo Robles-Zamora
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