Robert J. Richards (1986), 'A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics', Biology and Philosophy, 1, pp. 265-93.

The article draws out the issue of morality genesis in the point of view of chosen representatives of evolutionary ethics, understood as a biological theory of morality. Under this theory, morality is the result of cooperation of biologicial evoltion and cultural evolution.

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All the Monkeys Aren't in the Zoo: Evolutionary Ethics and the Possibility of Moral Knowledge

Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume ◽

10.1080/00455091.2000.10717554 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 245-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael Stingl

Keyword(s):

Mental Representations ◽

Natural World ◽

Error Theory ◽

Moral Judgments ◽

Evolutionary Ethics ◽

Evolutionary Perspective ◽

Naturalized Epistemology ◽

Human Psychology ◽

Moral Beliefs ◽

Moral Content

The error theory of moral judgment says that moral judgments, though often believed to be objectively true, never are. The tendency to believe in the objectivity of our moral beliefs, like the beliefs themselves, is rooted in objective features of human psychology, and not in objective features of the natural world that might exist apart from human psychology. In naturalized epistemology, it is tempting to take this view as the default hypothesis. It appears to make the fewest assumptions in accounting for the fact that humans not only make moral judgments, but believe them to be, at least some of the time, objectively true. In this paper I argue that from an evolutionary perspective, the error theory is not the most parsimonious alternative. It is simpler to suppose that mental representations with moral content arose as direct cognitive and motivational responses to independent moral facts.

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Nietzsche's Rejection of Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Ethics

The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics ◽

10.1017/9781316459409.003 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 28-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jeffrey O'Connell

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Evolutionary Ethics

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Evolutionary Ethics

Game Theory, Experience, Rationality ◽

10.1007/978-94-017-1654-3_22 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 277-283

Author(s):

Ken Binmore

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Ethics

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A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics

Philosophy after Darwin ◽

10.2307/j.ctv1jk0jrs.45 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 388-410

Author(s):

ROBERT J. RICHARDS

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Ethics

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Introduction: The Metaphysical Society in Context

The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198846499.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Catherine Marshall ◽

Bernard Lightman ◽

Richard England

Keyword(s):

Detailed Analysis ◽

Evolutionary Ethics ◽

British Society ◽

History Of ◽

Previous Scholarship

The introduction covers a history of the Metaphysical Society, including its aims and membership, role and legacy. After reviewing the previous scholarship on the Society, it lays out the structure of the volume, and introduces some of the figures who formed the membership of the Society, and their widely divergent views on such matters as, miracles, determinism, evolutionary ethics, liberalism. empiricism, intuitionism, and even metaphysics itself. It also discusses how the collection moves beyond past scholarship and draws directly on the papers presented at the Society, detailing the major concepts examined by the contributors, and offering a more detailed analysis of the Society’s inner dynamics and its wider impact on British society and culture. The contributors to this collection include scholars from different fields and different countries.

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