Moral Psychology, Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness

604 Pages·2008·1.46 MB·English

by  Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Editor)

Moral Psychology

Moral Psychology
Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness
edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moral psychology / edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
v. cm.
“A Bradford Book.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: v. 1. The evolution of morality: adaptations and innateness—v. 2. The
cognitive science of morality: intuition and diversity—v. 3. The neuroscience of
morality: emotion, disease, and development.
ISBN 978-0-262-19561-4 (vol. 1: hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-262-69354-7
(vol. 1: pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-262-19569-0 (vol. 2: hardcover : alk. paper)—
ISBN 978-0-262-69357-8 (vol. 2: pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-262-19564-5 (vol.
3: hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-262-69355-4 (vol. 3: pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Ethics. 2. Psychology and philosophy. 3. Neurosciences. I. Sinnott-Armstrong,
Walter, 1955–
BJ45.M66 2007
170—dc22 2006035509
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This volume is dedicated to the Moral Psychology Research Group, headed
by John Doris, Gilbert Harman, Shaun Nichols, Jesse Prinz, and Stephen
Stich, who have provided the stimulation and friendship that makes moral
psychology so much fun.
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
1 Naturalizing Ethics 1
Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong
1.1 Three Cheers for Naturalistic Ethics 27
William D. Casebeer
1.2 Response to Duke Naturalists 33
Michael Ruse
1.3 Naturalism Relativized? 37
Peter Railton
1.4 What Is the Nature of Morality? A Response to Casebeer, Railton,
and Ruse 45
Owen Flanagan, Hagop Sarkissian, and David Wong
2 Can a General Deontic Logic Capture the Facts of Human Moral
Reasoning? How the Mind Interprets Social Exchange Rules and Detects
Cheaters 53
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
2.1 Ought We to Abandon a Domain-General Treatment of
“Ought”? 121
Ron Mallon
2.2 Can Evolutionary Psychology Assist Logicians? A Reply to
Mallon 131
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
viii Contents
2.3 Comment on Cosmides and Tooby 137
Jerry Fodor
2.4 When Falsifi cation Strikes: A Reply to Fodor 143
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
3 Moral Sentiments Relating to Incest: Discerning Adaptations from
By-products 165
Debra Lieberman
3.1 Edward Westermarck on the Meaning of “Moral” 191
Arthur P. Wolf
3.2 Aversions, Sentiments, Moral Judgments, and Taboos 195
Richard Joyce
3.3 Response to Joyce and Wolf 205
Debra Lieberman
4 Kindness, Fidelity, and Other Sexually Selected Virtues 209
Geoffrey Miller
4.1 Why Moral Virtues Are Probably Not Sexual Adaptations 245
Catherine Driscoll
4.2 The Confl ict-Resolution Theory of Virtue 251
Oliver Curry
4.3 Response to Comments 263
Geoffrey Miller
5 Symbolic Thought and the Evolution of Human Morality 269
Peter Ulric Tse
5.1 A Just-So Story for Symbolic Thought? Comment on Tse 299
Michael R. Dietrich
5.2 Morality and the Capacity for Symbolic Cognition: Comment on
Tse 303
Kathleen Wallace
5.3 Reply to Dietrich and Wallace 315
Peter Ulric Tse
6 Nativism and Moral Psychology: Three Models of the Innate
Structure That Shapes the Contents of Moral Norms 319
Chandra Sekhar Sripada
Contents ix
6.1 Using a Linguistic Analogy to Study Morality 345
Gilbert Harman
6.2 The Poverty of the Moral Stimulus 353
John Mikhail
6.3 Reply to Harman and Mikhail 361
Chandra Sekhar Sripada
7 Is Morality Innate? 367
Jesse J. Prinz
7.1 How Not to Argue That Morality Isn’t Innate: Comments on
Prinz 407
Susan Dwyer
7.2 The Nativism Debate and Moral Philosophy: Comments on
Prinz 419
Valerie Tiberius
7.3 Reply to Dwyer and Tiberius 427
Jesse J. Prinz
References 441
Contributors 497
Index to Volume 1 499
Index to Volume 2 527
Index to Volume 3 557