On the Evolutionary Debunking of Morality

Ethics Volume 120, Number 3

By Erik J. Wielenberg

"Many claim that the availability of evolutionary explanations for human moral beliefs threatens the view that humans have moral knowledge. Peter Singer suggests that evolutionary explanations can debunk moral claims.1 Michael Ruse declares: “Morality is a collective illusion foisted upon us by our genes.”2 Sharon Street and Richard Joyce have recently offered sustained evolutionary debunkings of morality"

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