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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797757903321

Autore

James Scott M

Titolo

An introduction to evolutionary ethics [[electronic resource] /] / Scott M. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

1-4051-9396-4

1-282-88425-5

1-4443-2951-0

9786612884252

1-4443-2952-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

New York Academy of Sciences

Disciplina

171/.7

Soggetti

Ethics, Evolutionary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Natural selection and human nature -- The (earliest) roots of right -- The caveman's conscience -- Just deserts -- The science of virtue and vice -- Social harmony, the good, the bad, and the biologically ugly -- Hume's law -- Moore's naturalistic fallacy -- Rethinking Moore and Hume -- Evolutionary anti-realism : early efforts -- Contemporary evolutionary anti-realism -- Options for the evolutionary realist.