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"Alex Rosenberg"

Titel: Reconstruction in Moral Philosophy?
Autor: Matthew Braddock / Alex Rosenberg
Seite: 63-80

Abstract: We raise three issues for Kitcher’s Ethical Project: First, we argue that the genealogy of morals starts well before the advent of altruism-failures and the need to remedy them, which Kitcher dates at about 50K years ago. Second, we challenge the likelihood of long term moral progress of the sort Kitcher requires to establish objectivity while circumventing Hume’s challenge to avoid trying to derive normative conclusions from positive ones ’ought’ from ’is’. Third, we sketch ways in which Kitcher’s metaethical opponents could respond to his arguments against them.

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Titel: On the Original Contract: Evolutionary Game Theory and Human Evolution
Autor: Alex Rosenberg / Stefan Linquist
Seite: 136-157

Abstract: This paper considers whether the available evidence from archeology, biological anthropology, primatology, and comparative gene-sequencing, can test evolutionary game theory models of cooperation as historical hypotheses about the actual course of human prehistory. The examination proceeds on the assumption that cooperation is the product of cultural selection and is not a genetically encoded trait. Nevertheless, we conclude that gene sequence data may yet shed signi cant light on the evolution of cooperation.

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Ernst Fehr on Human Altruism. An Interdisciplinary Debate
2005 (27) Heft 1

Editorial
In the foregoing decade, two related developments in the behavioural sciences have drawn the attention of social scientists, particularly economists. The first is the use of laboratory experiments in the investigation of human behaviour. Although the use of such experiments has a longer history, only in the last decade has ’experimental economics’ become a sub-discipline of economics with which economists of just about all colours are familiar; indeed, experimental results regularly feed int...

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