Parting with illusions in evolutionary ethics
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Parting with illusions in evolutionary ethics
I offer a critical analysis of a view that has become a dominant aspect of recent thought on the relationship between evolution and morality, and propose an alternative. An ingredient in Michael Ruse’s ‘error theory’ (Ruse 1995) is that belief in moral (prescriptive, universal, and nonsubjective) guidelines arose in humans because such belief results in the performance of adaptive cooperative b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology & Philosophy
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0169-3867,1572-8404
DOI: 10.1023/a:1026356412003