Natural ethical facts [electronic resource] : evolution, connectionism, and moral cognition / William D. Casebeer.
In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral cognition just as we study other forms of cognition. His goal is to show that we have "softly fi...
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Table of Contents:
- Natural Ethical Facts
- Clearing the Way for Reduction: Addressing the Naturalistic Fallacy and the Open-Question Argument
- The Functional Account of Ethics: Functional Explanation in Biology and a Corresponding Account in Morality
- Moral Judgment, Learning in Neural Networks, and Connectionist Mental Models
- Connectionism and Moral Cognition: Explaining Moral Psychological Phenomena
- Applications and Critique: Moral Theory, Moral Practice, Moral Institutions
- Objections and Conclusions: Nature and Norms.