The evolution of morality : adaptations and innateness

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction - Walter Sinnott-Armstrong......Page 14
1 Naturalizing Ethics - Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong......Page 22
1.1 Three Cheers for Naturalistic Ethics - William D. Casebeer......Page 48
1.2 Response to Duke Naturalists - Michael Ruse......Page 54
1.3 Naturalism Relativized? - Peter Railton......Page 58
1.4 What Is the Nature of Morality? A Response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse - Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong......Page 66
2 Can a General Deontic Logic Capture the Facts of Human Moral Reasoning? How the Mind Interprets Social Exchange Rules and Detects Cheaters - Leda Cosmides and John Tooby......Page 74
2.1 Ought We to Abandon a Domain-General Treatment of “Ought”? - Ron Mallon......Page 142
2.2 Can Evolutionary Psychology Assist Logicians? A Reply to Mallon - Leda Cosmides and John Tooby......Page 152
2.3 Comment on Cosmides and Tooby - Jerry Fodor......Page 158
2.4 When Falsification Strikes: A Reply to Fodor - Leda Cosmides and John Tooby......Page 164
3 Moral Sentiments Relating to Incest: Discerning Adaptations from By-products - Debra Lieberman......Page 186
3.1 Edward Westermarck on the Meaning of “Moral” - Arthur P. Wolf......Page 212
3.2 Aversions, Sentiments, Moral Judgments, and Taboos - Richard Joyce......Page 216
3.3 Response to Joyce and Wolf - Debra Lieberman......Page 226
4 Kindness, Fidelity, and Other Sexually Selected Virtues - Geoffrey Miller......Page 230
4.1 Why Moral Virtues Are Probably Not Sexual Adaptations - Catherine Driscoll......Page 266
4.2 The Conflict-Resolution Theory of Virtue - Oliver Curry......Page 272
4.3 Response to Comments - Geoffrey Miller......Page 284
5 Symbolic Thought and the Evolution of Human Morality - Peter Ulric Tse......Page 290
5.1 A Just-So Story for Symbolic Thought? Comment on Tse - Michael R. Dietrich......Page 320
5.2 Morality and the Capacity for Symbolic Cognition: Comment on Tse - Kathleen Wallace......Page 324
5.3 Reply to Dietrich and Wallace - Peter Ulric Tse......Page 336
6 Nativism and Moral Psychology: Three Models of the Innate Structure That Shapes the Contents of Moral Norms - Chandra Sekhar Sripada......Page 340
6.1 Using a Linguistic Analogy to Study Morality - Gilbert Harman......Page 366
6.2 The Poverty of the Moral Stimulus - John Mikhail......Page 374
6.3 Reply to Harman and Mikhail - Chandra Sekhar Sripada......Page 382
7 Is Morality Innate? - Jesse J. Prinz......Page 388
7.1 How Not to Argue that Morality Isn’t Innate: Comments on Prinz - Susan Dwyer......Page 428
7.2 The Nativism Debate and Moral Philosophy: Comments on Prinz - Valerie Tiberius......Page 440
7.3 Reply to Dwyer and Tiberius - Jesse J. Prinz......Page 448
References......Page 462
Contributors......Page 518
Index to Volume 1......Page 520
Index to Volume 2......Page 548
Index to Volume 3......Page 578