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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 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 post follows on from The blur is not just a contradiction (Simone Weil). The notes for these were written at the same time as preparation for the post The need for worlds: Simone Weil and The Need for Roots. In The blur is not just a contradiction, the blur is discussed as an intentional way of thinking, with regard…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Arvan, Marcus. “Morality as an Evolutionary Exaptation.” 2021. via academia.edu. Web. This is a preprint of a chapter published in Johan De Smedt & Helen De Cruz & (eds.), Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics, Springer – Synthese Library. The final…

Books I've ordered are arriving, and as is traditional, they arrive in order of least desperately wanted first. So, the first is a general introduction to four writers on culture, which came out when I was 21 years old. Back then I was reading Stirner and anarchist SF. Cultural Analysis : the work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel…

In reshelving books on their shelves recently, with the two bookshelves themselves only returned to their place in the living room after we replaced the flooring, my eye lingered on a book cover. I did not recognise it, but it was familiar in the way one's infancy can return feelings. The book is then both unknown and known at the…