If Our Genes Are for Us, Who Can Be Against Us? Thoughts of a Pragmatist on Science and Morality
Abstract. The philosopher Michael Ruse accounts for the difference between hypothetical and categorical imperatives, and thus the origin of distinctively moral obligations like that of altruism, in genetic terms. This is part of an attempt to develop a philosophy that takes Darwin seriously by subst...
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1995
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Zygon
Year: 1995, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 357-367 |
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B Michael Ruse B Pragmatism B logic of transition B Sociobiology B Altruism B Moral Obligation |
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