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Caso, Juan Manuel Rodríguez, and Ricardo Noguera Solano. “Biological and Cultural Evolution of Morality: The Delusion of Progress.” Revista de Filosofía Fundamental (2022): via academia.edu Web. 21 Aug. 2024. A reaction below to a paper that came my way. I am working my way through a to-do list of them. That opening “Life evolves; it does not progress.” “To evolve”…

Michael Vlerick's “Better Than Our Nature? Evolution and Moral Realism, Justification and Progress.” in Ruse, Michael, and Robert J. Richards, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 9781107132955. Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy. [via academia.edu] Puts forward an “innate ‘moral compass’ ” or “ ‘moral sense’ ”as a way to allow an evolutionist to…

This is an organiser page for reading the following papers and chapters and ideas regarded morality in relation to evolution. It's a gap I am trying to fill. As reactions I won't dig to scholarly into to the intertextual background of the papers, and just say where I differ and why. When I get bored or repetitive I stop the…

The Origins of Virtue came out 25 years ago when I was 32, and I have a dim memory of it. Dim and thin, compared to a memorable reading I had of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen, which I borrowed from the State Library of Tasmania’s Hobart shelves. I can visualise where it was on the shelf, on a bay…

This is a rebooted version of all-logic-is-a-prior on substack.com. There is an interesting discussion involving game theory and learning models at Updatelessness doesn't solve most problems (in the unavoidable context of AI training). It’s written for the lay person. But it contains a lot of jargon, so it’s really for the lay person who knows what game theory is. The…

Steve Stewart-Williams, a reading of his The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve. (Cambridge University Press, 2018. #ISBN9781108425049 ) I pick this up because it covers some big history, from which general assumptions in my approach to morality and worldbuilding arise. It’s an academic book, as opposed to scholarly. It’s got a great innovation in…