why we should

This avenue of reading began like my discovery of the creator or promoter of the umbrella term ‘Man the hunter’ in two ways. It was a family hand-me down book and it was the writer’s second book. See Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative (substack.com). In Joseph Henrich’s case the second book has made a bigger splash than the first, and…

"Machine learning maps social learning not individual intelligence" may appear as not saying very much, especially if social learning is unknown or just hard to notice because it is like water to fish, essential but taken for granted. Social learning is a grab-all term for deliberate, emergent & surprising processes, intentional or unintended, that arise as humans organize their lives…

Recently I’ve been dipping more widely into general anthropology discourses, and learning how much there is to cover. A recent quick take on a paper meant looking harder at prosociality, and here I’ll be looking at another term I have not spend time to do a proper background check on. This may develop into an ongoing series, and will be…

Neil Levy "The Prospects for Evolutionary Ethics Today" Euramerica 40, no. 3 (September 2010): 529-71. Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica http://euramerica.org [via academia.edu] Crossposted at substack.com So, an Australlian? Neuroscientist? via Oxford? Abstract: One reason for the widespread resistance to evolutionary accounts of the origins of humanity is the fear that they undermine morality: if morality is…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and textual matter can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. This post is crossposted on substack. Bertini, Daniele. 2020. ‘Introduction The Evolutionary Approach to Ethics: From Animal Prosociality to Human Morality’, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12(3). DOI:10.24204/EJPR.V12I3.3411 [via academia.edu or philarchive.org] This paper was chosen next…

This is from an old bunch of notes from two years ago, born digital. If they were handwritten I’d remember better where I was going with the ideas in the notes. I'd even remember whether it was windy that day or not. But now I have trouble telling apart my views from the quotes. Is it a quote, did I…