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Who's afraid of the naturalistic fallacy?
- Abstract:
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David Hume argued that values are the projections of natural human desires, and that moral values are the projections of desires that aim at the common good of society. Recent developments in game theory, evolutionary biology, animal behaviour and neuroscience explain why humans have such desires, and hence provide support for a Humean approach to moral psychology and moral philosophy. However, few philosophers have been willing to pursue this naturalistic approach to ethics for fear that it ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Journal:
- Evolutionary Psychology Journal website
- Volume:
- 4
- Pages:
- 234-247
- Publication date:
- 2006-01-01
- ISSN:
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1474-7049
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:5823
- Deposit date:
- 2011-10-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Curry, O
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- N.B. Oliver Curry is now based at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
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