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Empirically engaged evolutionary ethics / Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz, editors.

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Book
Contributor:
De Smedt, Johan (Philosopher), editor.
De Cruz, Helen, 1978-2025, editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Series:
Synthese library ; 0166-6991 v. 437.
Synthese library, 0166-6991 ; volume 437
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrations.
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Place of Publication:
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
1. Situating empirically engaged evolutionary ethics (Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz)
Part I. The nuts and bolts of evolutionary ethics. 2. Dual-process theories, cognitive decoupling and the outcome-to-intent shift: A developmental perspective on evolutionary ethics (Gordon P. D. Ingram and Camilo Moreno-Romero)
3. Not so hypocritical after all: Belief revision is adaptive and often unnoticed (Neil Levy)
4. The chimpanzee stone accumulation ritual and the evolution of moral behavior (James B. Harrod)
Part II. The evolution of moral cognition . 5. Morality as an Evolutionary Exaptation (Marcus Arvan)
6. Social animals and the potential for morality: On the cultural exaptation of behavioral capacities required for normativity (Estelle Palao)
7. Against the evolutionary debunking of morality: Deconstructing a philosophical myth (Alejandro Rosas)
Part III. The cultural evolution of morality. 8. The cultural evolution of extended benevolence (Andrés Carlos Luco)
9. The contingency of the cultural evolution of morality, debunking, and theism vs. naturalism (Matthew Braddock)
10. Morality as cognitive scaffolding in the nucleus of the Mesoamerican cosmovision (Alfredo Robles-Zamora).
Notes:
Includes index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 10, 2021).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9783030688028
303068802X
Publisher Number:
99989843882
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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