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Darwinism and determinism
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This article is published in Zygon.The article was published on 1987-12-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hard determinism & Determinism.read more
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Really taking Darwin seriously: An alternative to Michael Ruse's Darwinian metaethics
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative Darwinian meta-ethics is proposed that both remedies the problems in Ruse's proposal and shows how a Darwinian naturalistic account of the moral good in terms of human fitness avoids the naturalistic fallacy and can provide genuine, even if limited, justifications for substantive ethical claims.
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The Philosophy of Human Evolution
TL;DR: Ruse as discussed by the authors provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, highlighting the problems for morality in a world governed by natural selection.
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Who's Afraid of the Naturalistic Fallacy?
TL;DR: This article reviewed several versions of the naturalistic fallacy, and demonstrated that none of them present an obstacle to this updated, evolutionary version of Humean ethical naturalism, and showed that the naturalism does not constitute a barrier to the evolution of moral psychology.
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Evolutionary Ethics and the Search for Predecessors: Kant, Hume, and All the Way Back to Aristotle?
TL;DR: The authors argue that recent developments in evolutionary biology, especially those dealing with the genetic basis of social behavior (sociobiology), open the way to a satisfactory biological understanding of morality.
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The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I
TL;DR: A genetical mathematical model is described which allows for interactions between relatives on one another's fitness and a quantity is found which incorporates the maximizing property of Darwinian fitness, named “inclusive fitness”.
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The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
TL;DR: In this paper, a model is presented to account for the natural selection of what is termed reciprocally altruistic behavior, and the model shows how selection can operate against the cheater (non-reciprocator) in the system.
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Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of a person is defined as a concept such that both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates attributing corporeal characteristics are equally applicable to a single individual of that single type.
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Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of a person is defined as a concept such that both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates attributing corporeal characteristics are equally applicable to a single individual of that single type.
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The Apportionment of Human Diversity
TL;DR: Lewontin this article pointed out that even in the present era of Darwinism there is considerable diversity of opinion about the amount or importance of intragroup variation as opposed to the variation between races and species.