Understanding moral sentiments
Subtitle: Darwinian perspectives?
By: Hilary Putnam, Susan Neiman, and Jeffrey P. Schloss, editors
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781412853965
Subjects: Theory of moral sentiments (Smith, Adam); Evolutionstheorie; Evolutionary Ethics; Darwinismus; Moralische Entwicklung; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The roots of prosocial preferences / Joan B. Silk; title: Defining the evolutionary; conscience: Finishing a job that Darwin started / Christopher Boehm; title: Are the "Principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others," Moral? / C. Daniel Batson; title: The moral instinct / Steven Pinker; title: Darwinian explanations of morality: Accounting for the normal but not the normative / Jeffrey P. Schloss / Compassion: Human and animal / Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Moral decision making: Interpreters of Darwin and Thomas Aquinas / Stephen J. Pope; title: Thirty-five years among the genes: A Twainian take on moral anthropology and reductive biology / Timothy P. Jackson; title: Not very much / Hilary Putnam; title: Setting aside facts / Susan Neiman; title: On the partnerhip between natural and moral philosophy / David C. Lahti.