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  title info:
    title: Evolutionary moral realism
  name:
    name part: Collier, John
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Stingl, Michael
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent. Across a wide range of species that are social and intelligent, possibilities arise for helping others, responding empathetically to the needs of others, and playing fairly. The book identifies these underlying environmental regularities as biological natural kinds and as natural moral values. As natural kinds, moral values help to provide more complete explanations for the selection of traits that arise in response to them. For example, helping in an aquatic environment is quite different than helping in an arboreal environment, and so we can expect the selection of traits for helping to reflect these underlying environmental differences. With the human ability to name, talk and reason about important features of our environment, moral values become part of moral discourse and argument, helping to produce coherent systems of moral thought. Combining a naturalistic approach to morality with an equal emphasis on moral argument and truth, this book will be of interest to philosophers and historians of biology, theoretical biologists, comparative psychologists, and moral philosophers.
  note: John Collier and Michael Stingl.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary developmental biology
  classification: BJ58 .C65 2020
  classification: 171/.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: History and philosophy of biology
  identifier: 9780367281304
  identifier: 0367281309
  identifier: 9780429299803
  identifier: 2019039353
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190903
    record change date: 20200210085403.0
    record identifier: in00004163845