An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics.

An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics -- Contents -- Introduction: A Philosopher and a Biologist Walk into a Bar . . . -- Part I: From "Selfish Genes" to Moral Beings: Moral Psychology after Darwin -- 1 Natural Selection and Human Nature -- 1.1 The Basic Story -- 1.2 Some Common Misunderstandings -- 1.3 Mother Nature as Tinkerer -- 1.4 Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature -- 1.5 An Evolved Mental Tool-Box -- 1.6 Some (More) Common Misunderstandings -- 1.7 Conclusion -- 2 The (Earliest) Roots of Right -- 2.1 Together We Stand? -- 2.2 Inclusive Fitness and the "Gene's-Eye" Point of View -- 2.3 Love Thy Neighbor - But Love Thy Family First -- 2.4 False Positives and Core Systems -- 2.5 A Quick Note on "Altruism" -- 2.6 Reciprocal Altruism -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 The Caveman's Conscience: The Evolution of Human Morality -- 3.1 What Makes Moral Creatures Moral -- 3.2 The Evolution of Morality -- 3.3 Explaining the Nature of Moral Judgments -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Just Deserts -- 4.1 The Ultimatum Game -- 4.2 The Public Goods Game -- 4.3 Winners Don't Punish -- 4.4 The Benefits of Guilt -- 4.5 A Lamb among Lions? -- 4.6 An Explanation for All of Morality? -- 4.7 Universal Morality or Universal Reason? -- 4.8 Conclusion -- 5 The Science of Virtue and Vice -- 5.1 Distress Test -- 5.2 Mind-Reading -- 5.3 "Them's the Rules" -- 5.4 Moral Innateness and the Linguistic Analogy -- 5.5 Switchboards, Biases, and Affective Resonances -- 5.6 Non-Nativist Doubts -- 5.7 Conclusion -- Part II: From "What Is" to "What Ought To Be": Moral Philosophy after Darwin -- 6 Social Harmony: The Good, the Bad, and the Biologically Ugly -- 6.1 From the Great Chain of Being, to the Tree of Life, to Morality -- 6.2 Uprooting the Tree of Life -- 7 Hume's Law -- 7.1 Deductively Valid Arguments -- 7.2 You Can't Get Out What You Don't Put In -- 7.3 "Of the Last Consequence".

7.4 Blocking the Move from Might to Right -- 7.5 Darwinism and Preserving the Human Species -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8 Moore's Naturalistic Fallacy -- 8.1 The Open Question Test -- 8.2 Failing the Open Question Test: Desiring to Desire -- 8.3 Failing the Open Question Test: Spencer -- 8.4 Failing the Open Question Test: Wilson -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 Rethinking Moore and Hume -- 9.1 Some Preliminary Doubts about the Open Question Test -- 9.2 What Things Mean vs. What Things Are -- 9.3 Implications for Social Darwinism -- 9.4 Forays across the Is/Ought Gap: Searle -- 9.5 Forays across the Is/Ought Gap: Rachels -- 9.6 Conclusion -- 10 Evolutionary Anti-Realism: Early Efforts -- 10.1 This Is Your Brain on God -- 10.2 Preliminaries -- 10.3 Wilson -- 10.4 The Argument from Idiosyncrasy -- 10.5 The Argument from Redundancy -- 10.6 Causation, Justification, and . . . a Rotting Corpse -- 10.7 Conclusion -- 11 Contemporary Evolutionary Anti-Realism -- 11.1 Napoleon Pills -- 11.2 A Darwinian Dilemma -- 11.3 Conclusion -- 12 Options for the Evolutionary Realist -- 12.1 Option 1: Learning Right from Wrong -- 12.2 Option 2: Response Dependency -- 12.3 Option 3: Virtue Ethics Naturalized -- 12.4 Option 4: Moral Constructivism -- 12.5 Objections to the Realist Options -- 12.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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