Evolutionary Intuitionism: A Theory of the Origin and Nature of Moral Facts 9780773560253

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Evolutionary Intuitionism: A Theory of the Origin and Nature of Moral Facts 9780773560253

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Rejecting Adaptationism in Ethics
2 The Design of Intuitionistic Organisms
3 The Evolution of Intuitionistic Organisms
4 The Moral Facts according to Evolutionary Intuitionism
5 Motivation, Evasion, and Variation
6 The Meta-Ethics of Evolutionary Intuitionism
7 Evaluating Evolutionary Intuitionism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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