O'Connor, Cailin (2019) Methods, Models, and the Evolution of Moral Psychology. [Preprint]
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Why are we good? Why are we bad? Questions regarding the evolution of morality have spurred an astoundingly large interdisciplinary literature. Some significant subset of this body of work addresses questions regarding our moral psychology: how did humans evolve the psychological properties which underpin our systems of ethics and morality? Here I do three things. First, I discuss some methodological issues, and defend particularly effective methods for addressing many research questions in this area. Second, I give an in-depth example, describing how an explanation can be given for the evolution of guilt---one of the core moral emotions---using the methods advocated here. Last, I lay out which sorts of strategic scenarios generally are the ones that our moral psychology evolved to `solve', and thus which models are the most useful in further exploring this evolution.
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| Keywords: | moral psychology, evolution, game theory, morality | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Cailin O'Connor | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2019 03:13 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2019 03:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16381 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | 2019 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16381 |
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