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October 2007
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0-262-69354-2
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Moral Psychology, Volume 1
The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness
Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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xiii
1Naturalizing Ethics
Owen J. Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian and David Wong
1
1.1Three Cheers for Naturalistic Ethics
William D. Casebeer
27
1.2Response to Duke Naturalists
Michael Ruse
33
1.3Naturalism Relativized?
Peter Railton
37
1.4What Is the Nature of Morality?
A Response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse
Owen J. Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian and David Wong
45
2Can a General Deontic Logic Capture the Facts of Human Moral Reasoning?
How the Mind Interprets Social Exchange Rules and Detects Cheaters
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
53
2.1Ought We to Abandon a Domain-General Treatment of 'Ought"?
Ron Mallon
121
2.2Can Evolutionary Psychology Assist Logicians?
A Reply to Mallon
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
131
2.3Comment on Cosmides and Tooby
Jerry Fodor
137
2.4When Falsification Strikes
A Reply to Fodor
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
143
3Moral Sentiments Relating to Incest
Discerning Adaptations from By-products
Debra Lieberman
165
3.1Edward Westermarck on the Meaning of "Moral"
Arthur P. Wolf
191
3.2Aversions, Sentiments, Moral Judgments, and Taboos
Richard Joyce
195
3.3Response to Joyce and Wolf
Debra Lieberman
205
4Kindness, Fidelity, and Other Sexually Selected Virtues
Geoffrey Miller
209
4.1Why Moral Virtues Are Probably Not Sexual Adaptations
Catherine Driscoll
245
4.2The Conflict-Resolution Theory of Virtue
Oliver Curry
251
4.3Response to Comments
Geoffrey Miller
263
5Symbolic Thought and the Evolution of Human Morality
Peter Ulric Tse
269
5.1A Just-So Story for Symbolic Thought?
Comment on Tse
Michael R. Dietrich
299
5.2Morality and the Capacity for Symbolic Cognition
Comment on Tse
Kathleen Wallace
303
5.3Reply to Dietrich and Wallace
Peter Ulric Tse
315
6Nativism and Moral Psychology
Three Models of the Innate Structure That Shapes the Contents of Moral Norms
Chandra Sekhar Sripada
319
6.1Using a Linguistic Analogy to Study Morality
Gilbert Harman
345
6.2The Poverty of the Moral Stimulus
John Mikhail
353
6.3Reply to Harman and Mikhail
Chandra Sekhar Sripada
361
7Is Morality Innate?
Jesse J. Prinz
367
7.1How Not to Argue That Morality Isn't Innate
Comments on Prinz
Susan Dwyer
407
7.2The Nativism Debate and Moral Philosophy
Comments on Prinz
Valerie Tiberius
419
7.3Reply to Dwyer and Tiberius
Jesse J. Prinz
427
References441
Contributors497
Index to Volume 1
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Index to Volume 2527
Index to Volume 3557
 
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