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Evolutionary Moral Realism (Hardcover)
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Evolutionary Moral Realism (Hardcover)
Series: History and Philosophy of Biology
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Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book
develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in
regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of
species of organisms that are social and intelligent. Across a wide
range of species that are social and intelligent, possibilities
arise for helping others, responding empathetically to the needs of
others, and playing fairly. The book identifies these underlying
environmental regularities as biological natural kinds and as
natural moral values. As natural kinds, moral values help to
provide more complete explanations for the selection of traits that
arise in response to them. For example, helping in an aquatic
environment is quite different than helping in an arboreal
environment, and so we can expect the selection of traits for
helping to reflect these underlying environmental differences. With
the human ability to name, talk, and reason about important
features of our environment, moral values become part of moral
discourse and argument, helping to produce coherent systems of
moral thought. Combining a naturalistic approach to morality with
an equal emphasis on moral argument and truth, this book will be of
interest to philosophers and historians of biology, theoretical
biologists, comparative psychologists, and moral philosophers.
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