Précis of Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence

In Defence of Error Theory

Life-history theory explains childhood moral development.

Infants understand harm and fairness in third-party situations and yet children require years of development before they apply this understanding to their own interactions with others. We suggest that the delay is explained by a life-history analysis of when behaving morally becomes beneficial. The human species is characterized by an extended period of juvenile dependence during which cooperat...

A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism

V EGETARIANISM is an old and respectable doctrine, and its popularity seems to be growing.' This would be of little interest to moral philosophers except for one fact, namely that some people advocate vegetarianism on moral grounds. Indeed, two well-known moral and social philosophers, Robert Nozick and Peter Singer, have recently advocated not eating meat on moral grounds.2 One job of a moral ...

fictionalization of history in nabil zarandi`s précis history

history - narrative interaction is one of the most important issues have being discussed in critical philosophy of history. a historian normally compiles the historical events, as the essential parts of history recording, and imports them besides some connectors through a narrative structure.  the existing relation between such a narrative and the reality is of considerable concerns which are e...

The cell-theory; a restatement, history and critique.

In the first half of the nineteenth century it was commonly supposed that new cells arose either exogenously, outside pre-existing cells, or endogenously, from small rudiments that appeared within pre-existing cells and gradually grew larger. The theory of exogeny had been founded by Wolff (1759), and was supported especially by Link (1807), Schwann (1839), and Vogt (1842). The theory of endoge...