Who's Afraid of the Naturalistic Fallacy?:

Evolutionary Psychology

Oliver Curry¹ 

关键词: Evolutionary ethics;    naturalistic fallacy;    is-ought gap;    Hume;    values;   

DOI  :  10.1177/147470490600400120

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

David Hume argued that values are the projections of natural human desires, and that moral values are the projections of desires that aim at the common good of society. Recent developments in game theory, evolutionary biology, animal behaviour and neuroscience explain why humans have such desires, and hence provide support for a Humean approach to moral psychology and moral philosophy. However, few philosophers have been willing to pursue this naturalistic approach to ethics for fear that it commits something called ‘the naturalistic fallacy’. This paper reviews several versions of the fallacy, and demonstrates that none of them present an obstacle to this updated, evolutionary version of Humean ethical naturalism.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC