Here I summarize the main points in my 2016 book, A Natural History of Human Morality. Taking an evolutionary point of view, I characterize human morality as a special form of cooperation. In particular, human morality represents a kind of we > me orientation and valuation that emanates from the logic ofsocial interdependence, both at the level of individual collaboration and at the level of the cultural group. Human morality emanates from psychological processes of shared intentionality evolved to enable individuals to function ectively in ever more cooperative lifeways
In this fascinating, accessible book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm, Professor at the University ...
Moral behavior and concern for others are sometimes argued to set humans apart from other species. H...
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The dominant theory of the evolution of moral cognition across a variety of fields is that moral cog...
In recent years a number of biologists, anthropologists, and animal scientists have tried to explain...
What are moral values and where do they come from? David Hume argued that moral values were the prod...
In modern society, there exists a standard for moral conduct that seems to reign universal over many...
What are moral values and where do they come from? David Hume argued that moral values were the prod...
What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate “how” question...
In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell (2022) provide an ambitious and compelling histo...
I discuss the main claims in a new book on the origins of morality . These are: i) our time, far fro...
Is morality a pure rational abstraction or is it rooted in human nature? In this paper I argue for t...
Social animals are provisioned with prosocial orientations that operate to transcend self-interest. ...
David Loye pointed us to one of Charles Darwin’s aims that often has been overlooked, to explain the...
In this fascinating, accessible book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm, Professor at the University ...
Moral behavior and concern for others are sometimes argued to set humans apart from other species. H...
Moral systems are described as systems of indirect reciprocity, existing because of histories of con...
Morality is essential to human identity. Since Darwin and Wallace proposed natural selection to exp...
The dominant theory of the evolution of moral cognition across a variety of fields is that moral cog...
In recent years a number of biologists, anthropologists, and animal scientists have tried to explain...
What are moral values and where do they come from? David Hume argued that moral values were the prod...
In modern society, there exists a standard for moral conduct that seems to reign universal over many...
What are moral values and where do they come from? David Hume argued that moral values were the prod...
What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate “how” question...
In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell (2022) provide an ambitious and compelling histo...
I discuss the main claims in a new book on the origins of morality . These are: i) our time, far fro...
Is morality a pure rational abstraction or is it rooted in human nature? In this paper I argue for t...
Social animals are provisioned with prosocial orientations that operate to transcend self-interest. ...
David Loye pointed us to one of Charles Darwin’s aims that often has been overlooked, to explain the...
In this fascinating, accessible book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm, Professor at the University ...
Moral behavior and concern for others are sometimes argued to set humans apart from other species. H...
Moral systems are described as systems of indirect reciprocity, existing because of histories of con...