moral naturalism ⁽³⁾

Evolution frees us from evolution. Ben Serber’s paper An Evolutionary Vindication of Moral Facts via academia.org [PDF] is basically a reaction to the book by Richard Joyce The Evolution of Morality (2006), with a nod or two and then a but. And then some musing about agnosticism. Looking at my linkpost page of reactions to evolution~morality articles (substack version) I can confirm I…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Joyce, Richard. “Evolution and Moral Naturalism.” The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (Forthcoming). Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. via academia.edu. Web. ISBN9781118657607 [Chapter 26 pages 369-385] This reaction is really just riffing on ‘moral naturalism’ more than the positions described in Joyce’s chapter,…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Beginning with the abstract's opening. My stepping through my first reading of the abstract might be all I do today. We propose an objective and justifiable ethics that is contingent on the truth of evolutionary theory. Wow. A strong…