why we should

Haworth, Alan. “Genes and Citizens: Can Moral Philosophy Learn From Evolutionary Biology?” Res Publica (2001): via academia.edu. Web. 10 Sept. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011924516656 ABSTRACT: The claim that moral philosophers have something to learn from recent neo-Darwinian theory cannot be sustained -at least, not in the case of the three theses characteristic of the latter on which I concentrate. The first thesis,…

Stewart-Williams, Steve. “Evolution and Morality.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868810569?via%3Dihub [via Web] [entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). (2015) ISBN 9780080970875 : Web. ] 2015 was about the year I starting writing down notes about stuff with various thoughts and feelings, about a subject which I would later realise was boxed-in as ‘moral philosophy’. It took ages to realise…

The world goes on without each of us, beyond us. Below, the each of us can forget it all for a while, or reject it all for even longer, before it returns us all to ourselves, coming to us unbidden, with a wave. The world cannot go on at all, without us all attending to it, even as the each…

I have a certain care or consideration for believers. This may not be apparent from reading my less than supportive posts on the imperial cult that is Christianity, and especially the rogue imperial sub-cult that is Catholicism, statist moves which give us the definition of religion and its over-application to practices which might best be regarded as ‘worlding’ rather than…

Via medicalxpress.com when scrolling on my phone, “Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia.” So I’ve become aware of the following article in Nature “Plasticity and Language in the Anaesthetized Human Hippocampus.” I took a few things away from this quick scroll,…

There is a type of selfing the world which worlds the self in terms of an identity. It is generally unwise, while it may have prosocial outcomes, these do not generally provide not long-term strategies. One can identify with someone when they tell a story, and one says in recognition “That’s me in the mirror!” It is still a mirror,…