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Evolved morality : the biology and philosophy of human conscience / edited by Frans B.M. de Waal, Patricia Smith Churchland, Telmo Pievani and Stefano Parmigiani.

Contributor(s): Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948- [editor.] | Churchland, Patricia Smith [editor.] | Pievani, Telmo [editor.] | Parmigiani, Stefano [editor.] | International School of Ethology
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: vi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004268166 (paperback); 9004268162 (paperback)Subject(s): Ethics, Evolutionary | Conscience | Behavior evolution | Human evolution | Primates -- Behavior | Altruistic behavior in animals | Cognitive neuroscience | NeuropsychologyBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Local Note: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) grant.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
A history of the altruism-morality debate in biology / Oren Harmon -- The moral consequences of social selection / Christopher Boehm -- Natural normativity : the 'is' and 'ought' of animal behavior / Frans M.B. de Waal -- Empiricism and normative ethics : what do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics? / Owen Flanagan, Aaron Ancell, Stephen Martin and Gordon Steenbergen -- Human nature and science : a cautionary essay / Simon Blackburn -- Is a naturalized ethics possible? / Philip Kitcher -- The origins of moral judgment / Richard Joyce -- The neurobiological platform for moral values / Patricia S. Churchland -- The neuroscience of social relations. A comparative-based approach to empathy and to the capacity of evaluating others' action value / Pier F. Ferrari -- A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment / Larisa Heiphetz and Liane Young -- Morality, intentionality and intergroup attitudes / Melanie Killen and Michael T. Rizzo -- Does religion make people moral? / Ara Norenzayan -- Supernatural beliefs : adaptations for social life or by-products of cognitive adaptations? / Vittorio Girotto, Telmo Pievani and Giorgio Vallortigara.
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Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library American Association for the Advancement of Science Collection Midrange BJ1311 .E86 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903437529

"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].

AAAS Science for Seminaries program.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of the altruism-morality debate in biology / Oren Harmon -- The moral consequences of social selection / Christopher Boehm -- Natural normativity : the 'is' and 'ought' of animal behavior / Frans M.B. de Waal -- Empiricism and normative ethics : what do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics? / Owen Flanagan, Aaron Ancell, Stephen Martin and Gordon Steenbergen -- Human nature and science : a cautionary essay / Simon Blackburn -- Is a naturalized ethics possible? / Philip Kitcher -- The origins of moral judgment / Richard Joyce -- The neurobiological platform for moral values / Patricia S. Churchland -- The neuroscience of social relations. A comparative-based approach to empathy and to the capacity of evaluating others' action value / Pier F. Ferrari -- A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment / Larisa Heiphetz and Liane Young -- Morality, intentionality and intergroup attitudes / Melanie Killen and Michael T. Rizzo -- Does religion make people moral? / Ara Norenzayan -- Supernatural beliefs : adaptations for social life or by-products of cognitive adaptations? / Vittorio Girotto, Telmo Pievani and Giorgio Vallortigara.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) grant.

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