Friday, 14 October 2005
Biology and the Justification of Ethics
Gabriele De Anna, U. of Udine, Italy
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Abstract: Evolutionary ethics has recently offered promising explanations
of ethical behavior and ethical systems, but we are still far from
understanding what a biologically based justification of ethics
would look like. I will attempt to develop a justificatory framework
for ethics founded on an account of human agency, into which the
data of biological sciences could fit.
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