Naslov
Morality as a Biological Trait

Autori
Bracanović, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Metaphysics, Language, and Morality / Kudlek, Karolina ; Bracanović, Tomislav - Zagreb : Udruga za promicanje filozofije ; Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2010, 17-17

ISBN
978-953-6682-94-2

Skup
Metaphysics, Language, and Morality

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 01.12.2010. - 03.12.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Morality; biological traits; altruism; design constraints

Sažetak
Evolutionary explanations of morality usually run into two classes of objections. According to the first class of objections, attempts to explain morality in biological terms are unfounded because morality is obviously not a biological trait and as such does not lend itself to evolutionary explanations. According to the second class of objections, morality is a biological trait, but only in a trivial and scientifically uninteresting sense of the word. The central objective of the paper is to show that both classes of objections are wrong. In the first part of the paper it is shown that morality satisfies some of the most central criteria for biological traits (like species typicality, developmental stability, non-malleability and genetic background). In the second part of the paper it is argued that biological status of morality can be traced by focusing on design constraints it shares with various forms of altruism in other species.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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