Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventuall…
"A Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children, Michael Tomasello reconstructs how early humans gradually became an ultra-coope…
For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story.
For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story.
The natural and cultural history of the evolution of our sense of ethics, by a leading anthropologist of human morality.
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution.
This important book brings recent findings and theories in biology and psychology to bear on the fundamental question in ethics of what it means to behave morally. By presenting a complete model of moral agency based on contemporary evolutionary theory, developmental biology and…
This important book brings findings and theories in biology and psychology to bear on the fundamental question in ethics of what it means to behave morally. It explains how we acquire and put to work our capacities to act morally and how these capacities are reliable means to ac…
This important book brings recent findings and theories in biology and psychology to bear on the fundamental question in ethics of what it means to behave morally. It explains how we acquire and put to work our capacities to act morally and how these capacities are reliable mean…
Moral Progress
by Kitcher, Philip, Srinivasan, Amia, Neiman, Susan, Jaeggi, Rahel
fromThe Munich Lectures in Ethics
"The overall aim of this book is to understand the character of moral progress, so that making moral progress may become more systematic and secure, less chancy and less bloody. Drawing on three historical examples - the abolition of chattel slavery, the expansion of opportuniti…
