According to Marc Hauser, “morality is grounded in our biology”. We’ve heard this sort of thing before, of course—from evolutionary biologists, for instance, who claim that natural selection favours altruistic behaviour, since acting benevolently towards other people is a way of securing our genetic posterity. Some proponents of the evolutionary explanation go further, and infer [...]
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A reply to Marc Hauser
I’ve been meaning to deal with this for a while.
At the beginning of June, Prospect magazine launched a blog, First Drafts. The second ever post there was a reply by the evolutionary psychologist and biologist Marc Hauser to my Guardian review of his book Moral Minds. It’s entitled ‘Did you actually read the book?‘, and [...]