TY - BOOK ID - 1695747 TI - Evolutionary ethics and contemporary biology AU - Boniolo, Giovanni AU - De Anna, Gabriele PY - 2006 SN - 9780521856294 0521856299 9780511498428 9780521122702 0511241763 9780511241765 9780511242212 0511242212 0511241267 9780511241260 051149842X 1107166349 1280567902 0511240740 0511318286 0521122708 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - General ethics KW - Bioethics KW - Ethics, Evolutionary KW - Ethics, Naturalistic KW - Evolutionary ethics KW - Naturalistic ethics KW - Ethics KW - Ethical relativism KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Ethics, Evolutionary. KW - Bioethics. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1695747 AB - How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a team of philosophers and scientists, the essays collected in this volume deal with the limits of evolutionary explanations, the justifications of ethics, and methodological issues concerning evolutionary accounts of ethics, among other topics. They offer deep insights into the origin and purpose of human moral capacities and of moral systems. ER -