Evolved morality : the biology and philosophy of human conscience /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014. ©2014
Description:	vi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethics, Evolutionary. Conscience. Behavior evolution. Human evolution. Primates -- Behavior. Altruistic behavior in animals. Cognitive neuroscience. Neuropsychology. Altruistic behavior in animals. Behavior evolution. Cognitive neuroscience. Conscience. Ethics, Evolutionary. Human evolution. Neuropsychology. Primates -- Behavior.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10080726

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Other uniform titles:	Behaviour. Vol. 151, pts. 2-3, 2014.
Other authors / contributors:	Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948- contributor and editor. Churchland, Patricia Smith, contributor and editor. Pievani, Telmo, contributor and editor. Parmigiani, Stefano, contributor and editor. International School of Ethology.
ISBN:	9789004263871 (hardback) 900426387X (hardback) 9789004268166 (paperback) 9004268162 (paperback)
Notes:	"These articles are also published in Behaviour, volume 151, parts 2-3 (February 2014)"--Page [4] of cover. Pages [1]-[266] also numbered 137-402 from original paging. Outgrowth of a workshop on the biological roots of morality and ethics held June 17-22, 2012, in Erice, Italy, as part of the International School of Ethology. (Pages [3]-[4]) Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Morality is often defined in opposition to the natural "instincts," or as a tool to keep those instincts in check. New findings in neuroscience, social psychology, animal behaviour, and anthropology have brought us back to the original Darwinian position that moral behaviour is continuous with the social behavior of animals, and most likely evolved to enhance the cooperativeness of society. In this view, morality is part of human nature rather than its opposite. This interdisciplinary volume debates the origin and working of human morality within the context of science as well as religion and philosophy. Experts from widely different backgrounds speculate how morality may have evolved, how it develops in the child, and what science can tell us about its working and origin. They also discuss how to deal with the age-old facts-versus-values debate, also known as the naturalistic fallacy. The implications of this exchange are enormous, as they may transform cherished views on if and why we are the only moral species.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Evolved morality: The biology and philosophy of human conscience
Section 1. Evolution
Introduction
A history of the altruism-morality debate in biology
The moral consequences of social selection
Natural normativity: The 'is' and 'ought' of animal behavior
Section 2. Meta-Ethics
Introduction
Empiricism and normative ethics: What do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics?
Human nature and science: A cautionary essay
Is a naturalized ethics possible?
The origins of moral judgment
Section 3. Neuroscience and Development
Introduction
The neurobiological platform for moral values
The neuroscience of social relations. A comparative-basedapproach to empathy and to the capacity of evaluating others' action value
A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment
Morality, intentionality and intergroup attitudes
Section 4. Religion
Introduction
Does religion make people moral?
Supernatural beliefs: Adaptations for social life or by-products of cognitive adaptations?
Index

Evolved morality : the biology and philosophy of human conscience /

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