Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics /
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, id est, to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Situating empirically engaged evolutionary ethics (Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz)
- Part I. The nuts and bolts of evolutionary ethics. 2. Dual-process theories, cognitive decoupling and the outcome-to-intent shift: A developmental perspective on evolutionary ethics (Gordon P. D. Ingram and Camilo Moreno-Romero)
- 3. Not so hypocritical after all: Belief revision is adaptive and often unnoticed (Neil Levy)
- 4. The chimpanzee stone accumulation ritual and the evolution of moral behavior (James B. Harrod)
- Part II. The evolution of moral cognition . 5. Morality as an Evolutionary Exaptation (Marcus Arvan)
- 6. Social animals and the potential for morality: On the cultural exaptation of behavioral capacities required for normativity (Estelle Palao)
- 7. Against the evolutionary debunking of morality: Deconstructing a philosophical myth (Alejandro Rosas)
- Part III. The cultural evolution of morality. 8. The cultural evolution of extended benevolence (Andrés Carlos Luco)
- 9. The contingency of the cultural evolution of morality, debunking, and theism vs. naturalism (Matthew Braddock)
- 10. Morality as cognitive scaffolding in the nucleus of the Mesoamerican cosmovision (Alfredo Robles-Zamora).