Walter , Alex (2006).The anti-naturalistics fallacy: Evolutionary moral psychology and the insistence of brute facts. Evolutionary Psychology. 4, 33-48.

The Anti-Naturalistic Fallacy: Evolutionary Moral Psychology and the Insistence of Brute Factsby Alex Walter

Ryan HeflinDevon KeltsSuzie BandaSeth

Walter , Alex (2006).The anti-naturalistics fallacy: Evolutionary moral psychology and the insistence of brute facts. Evolutionary Psychology. 4, 33-48.

Main TopicsHumes Law: Do not violate the distinction between fact and value.

Moore’s “Naturalisitic Fallacy”: don’t jump from “is” to “ought”.

“Morality is an illusion of the genes” -Ruse

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Central Argument

Against The Anti-naturalistic fallacy: to hold that values are non-natural facts.

Walter , Alex (2006).The anti-naturalistics fallacy: Evolutionary moral psychology and the insistence of brute facts. Evolutionary Psychology. 4, 33-48.

Darwin: Morals As Products of Natural Selection

-“Common Fate” Natural Selection-

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Moral Perspectives

Ethical Objectivism

Moral Realism

Moral Skepticism

Utilitarian Realism

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Conclusion

Evolutionary Psychology can examine ethics by examining how they evolved and what they are

“Confined Generosity”: constraining selfish acts for the common good

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The Future: Evolutionary Psych and Ethics

Philip Kitchner 1985

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Weaknesses

Seems to slip into a valuation of behavior

Walter , Alex (2006).The anti-naturalistics fallacy: Evolutionary moral psychology and the insistence of brute facts. Evolutionary Psychology. 4, 33-48.

Strengths

Evolutionary Psychology as a tool for understanding morals

Morals as evolved functions of human psychology not of a transcendent supernatural origin

Walter , Alex (2006).The anti-naturalistics fallacy: Evolutionary moral psychology and the insistence of brute facts. Evolutionary Psychology. 4, 33-48.

QuizWhich is not a moral system talked about in this article?

A) moral realism

B) nihilism

C) moral skepticism

D) utilitarian realism

The Anti-naturalistic fallacy is?

A) what is natural is good

B) facts about morality are natural facts

C) jumping from “is” to “ought”

Who spoke of “common fate” evolution in which individual survival becomes tied to group survival and therefore socials traits are selected in individuals?

A) Hume

B) Darwin

C) Moore

D) Walter

Walter , Alex (2006).The anti-naturalistics fallacy: Evolutionary moral psychology and the insistence of brute facts. Evolutionary Psychology. 4, 33-48.

Quiz

According to this article evolutionary psychology can contribute to ethics, T or F?

The Moral Realism perspective argues that there exists objective morals, T or F?

Darwin thought, ‘what is natural is good’, T or F?