Evolutionary Origins of Morality

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This volume includes four principal papers and a total of 43 peer commentaries on the evolutionary origins of morality.
Credit: Marc Hauser

"What would happen at a fictional dinner with the likes of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, David Hume, and Friedrich Nietzsche debating and revising their views in the light of today's science? Hard to say, perhaps, but one might well imagine that it would be great fun to listen in. Forget fiction. Pick up Evolutionary Origins of Morality and find out how moral psychology is being picked apart by evolutionists. The concise essays and critical exchanges are great fun -- and a feast for the mind."

Source: Biology and Philosophy

"The papers are without exception excellent... It is hard to imagine a better start than the essays collected here for the new enterprise of applying evolutionary and primatological findings to the study of morality."

Source: Human Nature Review

"A fascinating set of essays."

Source: Journal of Moral Education

"Provides a wonderfully rich range of viewpoints from a variety of fields."

Source: APA Review of Books

"Psychologists will find much to enjoy in this meaty volume."

Credit: Noam Chomsky

"Thoughtful and informative,... a good basis for appreciating what has been achieved, and what the prospects might be, in a domain of inquiry that is of fundamental importance for understanding of our essential nature."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 17 March 2000
- ISBN-13: 9780907845072
- Extent: Main content page count : 256
- Code: 090784507X
- Dimensions: 17.8 x 27.5 x 1.8 cm
- Weight: 500 grams
- List Price: £17.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Evolutionary Origins of Morality
Subtitle: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Edited by: Leonard D. Katz
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Imprint Academic

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