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Science and the End of Ethics

By Stephen G. Morris

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
1137499842, 9781137499844
Google Books ID
juC_BwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3683689 bytes)
Pages
x+238\249
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-05-23 20:37:45
Ethics Morality Philosophy Politics Social Science

Description

Science and the End of Ethics examines some of the most important positive and negative implications that science has for ethics. Addressing the negative implications first, author Stephen Morris discusses how contemporary science provides significant challenges to moral realism. One threat against moral realism comes from evolutionary theory, which suggests that our moral beliefs are unconnected to any facts that would make them true. Ironically, many of the same areas of science (e.g. evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology) that present difficulties for moral realism point to a new ethical approach that focuses on achieving some of the key practical goals shared by ethicists. Chief among these is how to increase amicable behavior among people.

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