Evolution of Morality

Name: Evolution of Morality
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ISBN: 9780262101127

ISBN-10: 0262101122

ISBN-13: 9780262101127

Edition: 2006

Authors: Richard Joyce

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Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human morality. As a moral philosopher, Joyce is interested in whether any implications follow from this hypothesis. Might the fact that the human brain has been biologically prepared by natural selection to engage in moral judgment serve in some sense to vindicate this way of thinking--staving…

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List price: $8.75
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/2/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Richard Joyce is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and author of The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006).



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Human Nature



The Natural Selection of Helping



The Nature of Morality



Moral Language and Moral Emotions



The Moral Sense



The Evolutionary Vindication of Morality



The Evolutionary Debunking of Morality


Conclusion: Living with an Adapted Mind


Notes


Bibliography


Index