Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-13295-5.
Recently there has been a major revival of interest in the connections between evolutionary theory, especially that of Darwin, and moral reasoning and action. This wide-ranging and clearly written book traces the history of evolutionary ethics and takes readers through the arguments involved.
HistoricalEthics, Evolution, and the A Priori: Ross on Spencer and the French Sociologists
Nietzsche ’ s Rejection of Nineteenth- Century Evolutionary Ethics
American Pragmatism, Evolution, and Ethics
Social Darwinism and Market Morality: A Modern- Day View
The Path to the Present
For Evolutionary EthicsDarwinian Evolutionary Ethics
Human Morality: From an Empirical Puzzle to a Metaethical Puzzle
Evolution and the Epistemological Challenge to Moral Realism
Evolutionary Naturalism and Valuation
Evolutionary Ethics: A Theory of Moral Realism
Moral Mismatch and Abolition
Against Debunking ArgumentsMoral Realism and Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Why Darwinism Does Not Debunk Objective Morality
Debunking Arguments: Mathematics, Logic, and Modal Security
Evolution and the Missing Link (in Debunking Arguments)
Better Than Our Nature? Evolution and Moral Realism, Justifi cation and Progress
ElaborationsDarwinian Ethics: Biological Individuality and Moral Relativism
Evolutionary Psychology, Feminist Critiques Thereof, and the Naturalistic Fallacy
A Theological Evaluation of Evolutionary Ethics