Natural goodness

Nothing in Ethics Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution? Natural Goodness and Evolutionary Biology∗

Philippa Foot (2001) and Rosalind Hursthouse (1999), along with other philosophers, have argued for a metaethical position, the natural goodness approach, that claims moral evaluations are, or are on a par with, teleological claims made in the biological sciences. Specifically, an organism’s flourishing is characterized by how well they function as specified by the species to which they belong....

Nothing in ethics makes sense except in the light of evolution? Natural goodness, normativity, and naturalism

Philippa Foot (2001), Rosalind Hursthouse (1999), and Michael Thompson (2008), along with other philosophers, have argued for a metaethical position, the natural goodness approach, that claims moral judgments are, or are on a par with, teleological claims made in the biological sciences. Specifically, an organism’s flourishing is characterized by how well they function as specified by the speci...

Ramsey goodness and beyond

In a seminal paper from 1983, Burr and Erd1⁄2os started the systematic study of Ramsey numbers of cliques vs. large sparse graphs, raising a number of problems. In this paper we develop a new approach to such Ramsey problems using a mix of the Szemerédi regularity lemma, embedding of sparse graphs, Turán type stability, and other structural results. We give exact Ramsey numbers for various clas...

Goodness of Fit

Partition - Based Goodness -

We propose a way to construct consistent generalizations of the Cram er-von Mises test on the line, and the Watson U 2 n test on the circle, based on classes of partitions invariant under various group actions. The framework developed extends our earlier work generalizing the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Kuiper goodness-oft tests, and provides a conceptually unifying description. Many goodness-oft te...