Evolutionary Debunking Arguments In Ethics
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Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
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Author : Diego E. Machuca
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-09
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments written by Diego E. Machuca and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-09 with Philosophy categories.
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in evolutionary debunking arguments directed against certain types of belief, particularly moral and religious beliefs. According to those arguments, the evolutionary origins of the cognitive mechanisms that produce the targeted beliefs render these beliefs epistemically unjustified. The reason is that natural selection cares for reproduction and survival rather than truth, and false beliefs can in principle be as evolutionarily advantageous as true beliefs. The present volume brings together fourteen essays that examine evolutionary debunking arguments not only in ethics and philosophy of religion, but also in philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The essays move forward research on those arguments by shedding fresh light on old problems and proposing new lines of inquiry. The book will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in the possible skeptical implications of evolutionary theory in any of the above domains.
Debunking Arguments In Ethics
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Author : Hanno Sauer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-26
Debunking Arguments In Ethics written by Hanno Sauer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with Philosophy categories.
Offers the first book-length discussion of debunking arguments in ethics and the reliability of moral judgment.
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments In Ethics
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Author : Andreas Mogensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments In Ethics written by Andreas Mogensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Evolution categories.
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments In Ethics
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Author : Andreas Mogensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments In Ethics written by Andreas Mogensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Evolution categories.
The Cambridge Handbook Of Evolutionary Ethics
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Author : Michael Ruse
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-24
The Cambridge Handbook Of Evolutionary Ethics written by Michael Ruse and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with History categories.
This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.
The Evolution Of Morality
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Author : Todd K. Shackelford
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-10
The Evolution Of Morality written by Todd K. Shackelford and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with Psychology categories.
This interdisciplinary collection presents novel theories, includes provocative re-workings of longstanding arguments, and offers a healthy cross-pollination of ideas to the morality literature. Structures, functions, and content of morality are reconsidered as cultural, religious, and political components are added to the standard biological/environmental mix. Innovative concepts such as the Periodic Table of Ethics and evidence for morality in non-human species illuminate areas for further discussion and research. And some of the book’s contributors question premises we hold dear, such as morality as a product of reason, the existence of moral truths, and the motto “life is good.” Highlights of the coverage: The tripartite theory of Machiavellian morality: judgment, influence, and conscience as distinct moral adaptations. Prosocial morality from a biological, cultural, and developmental perspective. The containment problem and the evolutionary debunking of morality. A comparative perspective on the evolution of moral behavior. A moral guide to depravity: religiously-motivated violence and sexual selection. Game theory and the strategic logic of moral intuitions. The Evolution of Morality makes a stimulating supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the evolutionary sciences, particularly in psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy
Life And Evolution
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Author : Lorenzo Baravalle
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-04-10
Life And Evolution written by Lorenzo Baravalle and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology, but since many local authors prefer to write in Spanish or in Portuguese, their ideas have barely crossed the boundaries of the continent. This volume aims to remedy this state of things, providing a good sample of this production to the English speaking readers, bringing together contributions from researchers working in Brazilian, Argentinean, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican universities. The stress on the regional provenance of the authors is not intended to suggest the existence of something like a Latin American history and philosophy of biology, supposedly endowed with distinctive features. On the contrary, the editors firmly believe that advances in this field can be achieved only by stimulating the integration in the international debate. Based on this assumption, the book focuses on two topics, life and evolution, and presents a selection of contributions addressing issues such as the history of the concept of life, the philosophical reflection on life manipulation and life extension, the structure and development of evolutionary theory as well as human evolution. Life and Evolution – Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology will provide the international reader with a rather complete picture of the ongoing research in the history and philosophy of biology in Latin America, offering a snapshot of this dynamic community. It will also contribute to contextualize and develop the debate concerning life and evolution, and the relation between the two phenomena.
Robust Ethics
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Author : Erik J. Wielenberg
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Robust Ethics written by Erik J. Wielenberg and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Philosophy categories.
Erik J. Wielenberg draws on recent work in analytic philosophy and empirical moral psychology to defend non-theistic robust normative realism and develop an empirically-grounded account of human moral knowledge. Non-theistic robust normative realism has it that there are objective, non-natural, sui generis ethical features of the universe that do not depend on God for their existence. The early chapters of the book address various challenges to the intelligibility and plausibility of the claim that irreducible ethical features of things supervene on their non-ethical features as well as challenges from defenders of theistic ethics who argue that objective morality requires a theistic foundation. Later chapters develop an account of moral knowledge and answer various recent purported debunkings of morality, including those based on scientific research into the nature of the proximate causes of human moral beliefs as well as those based on proposed evolutionary explanations of our moral beliefs.
Moral Reality And The Empirical Sciences
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Author : Thomas Pölzler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-11
Moral Reality And The Empirical Sciences written by Thomas Pölzler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-11 with Philosophy categories.
Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)? To answer this question more and more scholars have recently begun to appeal to evidence from scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, and anthropology. This book investigates this novel scientific approach in a comprehensive, empirically focused, partly clarificatory, and partly metatheoretical way. It argues for two main theses. First, it is possible for the empirical sciences to contribute to the moral realism/anti-realism debate. And second, most appeals to science that have so far been proposed are insufficiently empirically substantiated. The book’s main chapters address four prominent science-based arguments for or against the existence of objective moral truths: the presumptive argument, the argument from moral disagreement, the sentimentalist argument, and the evolutionary debunking argument. For each of these arguments Thomas Pölzler first identifies the sense in which its underlying empirical hypothesis would have to be true in order for the argument to work. Then he shows that the available scientific evidence fails to support this hypothesis. Finally, he also makes suggestions as to how to test the hypothesis more validly in future scientific research. Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences is an important contribution to the moral realism/anti-realism debate that will appeal both to philosophers and scientists interested in moral psychology and metaethics.
A New Science Of Religion
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Author : Gregory W. Dawes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
A New Science Of Religion written by Gregory W. Dawes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Religion categories.
There are contrasting theories that deal with different aspects of human religiosity - some focus on religious beliefs, while others focus on religious actions, and still others on the origin of religious ideas. While these theories might share a similar focus, there is plenty of disagreement in the explanations they offer. This volume examines the diversity of new scientific theories of religion, by outlining the logical and causal relationships between these enterprises. Are they truly in competition, as their proponents sometimes suggest, or are they complementary and mutually illuminating accounts of religious belief and practice?