1st Edition

Understanding Moral Sentiments Darwinian Perspectives?

By Hilary Putnam Copyright 2014
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

This volume brings together leading scholars to examine Darwinian perspectives on morality from widely ranging disciplines: evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. They bring not only varied expertise, but also contrasting judgments about which, and to what extent, differing evolutionary accounts explain morality. They also consider the implications of these... Read more

Introduction

The Roots of Prosocial Preferences
Joan B. Silk

Defining the Evolutionary Conscience: Finishing a Job that Darwin Started
Christopher Boehm

Are the "Principles in His Nature, Which Interest Him in the Fortune of Others," Moral?
C. Daniel Batson

The Moral Instinct
Steven Pinker

Darwinian Explanations of Morality: Accounting for the Normal but Not the Normative
Jeffrey P. Schloss

Compassion: Human and Animal
Martha C. Nussbaum

Moral Decision Making: Interpreters of Darwin and Thomas Aquinas
Stephen J. Pope

Thirty-Five Years among the Genes: A Twainian Take on Moral Anthropology and Reductive Biology
Timothy P. Jackson

Not Very Much
Hilary Putnam

Setting Aside Facts
Susan Neiman

On the Partnership between Natural and Moral Philosophy
David C. Lahti

List of Contributors

Index

Biography

Hilary Putnam