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On the Functions of Morality.

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Title/Author:	On the Functions of Morality./
Author:	Conrad, Aryn Ashley.
Description:	1 online resource (176 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
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ISBN:	9781339323831

On the Functions of Morality.
Conrad, Aryn Ashley.

On the Functions of Morality. - 1 online resource (176 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation seeks to bring together two philosophical literatures: the functions literature from the philosophy of biology, and the functionalist literature in naturalistic metaethics. Biological function suggests both objectivity and normativity: "the function of the heart is to pump blood" is an objective fact, and yet, hearts may malfunction---and malfunctioning is normative. Many ethicists wish to naturalize ethics---to help find a place for human normative lives in the objective natural world. In order to do so, they need tools to analyze humans as the products of evolutionary processes. Humans have a dual inheritance system involving both cultural and genetic inheritance that makes analysis of function for them particularly complex. In this dissertation, I develop a set of conceptual tools for those who wish to naturalize. I begin by developing an account of inheritance that can handle culture. Then, I elaborate the selected effects account of function so that it can handle all the evolutionary strangeness of culture. I then introduce the monolith fallacy---an error often committed by those studying human evolution---a tendency to oversimplify---to emphasize the high degree of complexity involved in any naturalizing project. Finally, I introduce the notion of value-guided functions---a kind of functioning not tied to our intentions, but to our values to round out the picture. I then apply the whole framework to the work of the functional metaethicists: Allan Gibbard, David Wong, Richard Joyce, and Philip Kitcher.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781339323831Subjects--Topical Terms:

559771
Philosophy.
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554714
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