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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.

"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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