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Author Zamulinski, Brian Edward, 1951-

Title Evolutionary intuitionism : a theory of the origin and nature of moral facts / Brian Zamulinski
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
Contents Rejecting adaptationism in ethics -- The design of intuitionistic organisms -- The evolution of intuitionistic organisms -- The moral facts according to evolutionary intuitionism -- Motivation, evasion, and variation -- The meta-ethics of evolutionary intuitionism -- Evaluating evolutionary intuitionism
Summary Evolutionary Intuitionism presents a new evolutionary theory of human morality. Zamulinski explains the evolution of foundational attitudes, whose relationships to acts constitute moral facts. With foundational attitudes and the resulting moral facts in place, he shows how they ground a plausible normative morality, give answers to meta-ethical questions, and provide an account of moral motivation. He explains the nature of moral intuitions and, thus, of our access to the moral facts. He shows that the theory makes confirmed empirical predictions, including the observable variation in moral views. The combination of intuitionism and evolutionary ethics enables Zamulinski to overcome the standard objections to both
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-161) and index
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Subject Ethics, Evolutionary.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics, Evolutionary
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773560253
0773560254