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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…

No order at all, not even chaos. Not even wrong. Crossposted from substack.com, September 2023. Some re-phrasing. Roger Scruton’s The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures 2010. (London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014, ISBN 9781472912732). Picked this up when I was writing the other Roger Scruton posts listed below, but only began reading it a couple of days ago after I mined Super…

Originally posted in September 2023 on substack.com. Most notes and quotes from or for Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 9780701139988 (No idea what that book is look at this Review article by Gillian Dooley). In mathematics classes they often want you to show your working. I once did a exam as part of…

No/true! — it's not nothing all the way down either. (I started my reading journey with From selfing in worlding to sovereignty. This is my finished up reader’s report.) reading plato in a martian chasm Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher who read Plato with a post-Wittgenstein lens, holding a distrust of recent (post-)structuralist temple-smashing efforts. Though this…

(Some pointers on a non-relativistic position on worlding) Worlding (to world with a self, to self with a world) describes what we do as we live among others. Worlding/selfing arose in evolution, in a reality before we got here. But evolution does not care about what we produce with the worlding urge, just as it does not care about our…

Last week in Atlas of non-landscape artists I said that a book had been purchased and subsequently delivered, after I had watched Sam Harris Still Hasn’t “Solved” Morality w/ ‪@lanceindependent in which the book had been mentioned by Lance, with particular reference to Stephen Stich and Edouard Machery. I still haven’t found time to watch the entire stream, but have…