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September 5, 2013

Would Abandoning Moral Foundations Make For A Better Society?

Are there ‘bad’ kinds of moralizing?Are there ‘bad’ kinds of moralizing? If so, does understanding morality as the product of evolutionary processes (of the biological and cultural kind) reveal why ‘bad’ moralizing has so persistently existed and allow us to sort out the ‘bad’ from the ‘good’?

June 28, 2012

On the Evolution of Human Morality (a comment on Steven Pinker)

Why do fundamentally selfish beings, which is what humans are according to the selfish gene theory, accept cultural norms that contradict their natural strivings?

May 7, 2012

Pinker, Politics, and the Decline of Violence: Roundtable on “The Better Angels of Our Nature”

This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Steven Pinker's book. Steven Pinker's book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," has been getting substantial media attention this year, and it makes what many see as a surprising and counterintuitive claim about the decline of violence in human evolutionary history. Now, the academics weigh in. This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Pinker's book.

June 30, 2012

Debate on Altruism, Human Social Evolution, and Natural Selection

In the spirit of Evolution: This View of Life's mantra "science as a process of constructive disagreement" we will highlight the debate and welcome all the arguments.