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An introduction to evolutionary ethics
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ISBN: 9781405193979 1405193972 9781405193962 1405193964 1282884255 1444329510 9786612884252 1444329529 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell,

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Offering the first general introductory text to this subject, the timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics reflects the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated in both psychology and philosophy. The book presents students to the areas of cognitive psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics. * The first general introduction to evolutionary ethics * Provides a comprehensive survey of work in three distinct areas of research: cognitive psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics * Presents the most up-to-date research available in both psychology and philosophy * Written in an engaging and accessible style for undergraduates and the interested general reader * Discusses the evolution of morality, broadening its relevance to those studying psychology.


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The ethical project.
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ISBN: 0674063074 9780674063075 9780674061446 0674061446 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard university press

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Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical new vision, Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate their interactions with one another, and how human societies eventually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to live, he contends, survive in our values today. Drawing on natural science, social science, and philosophy to develop an approach he calls “pragmatic naturalism,” Kitcher reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core principles—including justice and cooperation—but leaving room for a diversity of communities and modes of self-expression. Ethics emerges as a beautifully human phenomenon—permanently unfinished, collectively refined and distorted generation by generation. Our human values, Kitcher shows, can be understood not as a final system but as a project—the ethical project—in which our species has engaged for most of its history, and which has been central to who we are.


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The Battle for Compassion
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ISBN: 087586872X 9780875868721 9780875868707 0875868703 9780875868714 0875868711 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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Six hundred years after Copernicus presented his revolutionary and heretical heliocentric theory, a sunset can still look unexpectedly new. What if the fate of our world depended on a similar shift in perspective?. Synthesizing recent thinking from science, philosophy, psychology and economics with the author's own reflections on freedom, identity and morality, The Battle for Compassion offers a fresh, sweeping perspective on the human condition and a deep contemplation of the basis for our priorities at this critical moment in our history. The threats to our existence and the persistence of i

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