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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…

An essay from about 2000 about learning how to get unlost. Backgrounding for an uncoming piece on fusion by terror. Recently I got lost. This is unusual because I never get lost. Ever. Anywhere. Not that I have felt completely immune to getting lost. The feelings I had while stopping by the side of the Sturt Highway were as aware…

Dear Galatea, while science has taken up the error rate of our worlding as a virtue, that the noise is the signal, the information is an emotion, in a practice of charms, the categorical error of our making all thought an ontology gives us a method showing less favour on the missteps and trials of life long learning. The boxed-in mistake is…

I have been reading the substack Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon since late 2024. It’s J.N. Nielsen’s more recently used platform as his work is available on tumblr and there is a newsletter or two. I have been educated by all this and is my go to read on substack. Especially for the generalist reader (as opposed the general…