Mark Hopwood

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Elucidations · Episode 26: Robert Richards discusses evolutionary ethics · 8 Sep 2011 podcast

So we might step back and look at a human being and say, Well, our explanation for them acting in this way is that they evolve like this, that it has something to do with their genes. matched

But that might be very different from the reasons for which they're acting. matched

Does that present uh kind of complication to the the view that you're putting forward? matched

So I guess there's one way that someone could take what you're saying as matched

at least relatively uncontroversial amongst philosophers. matched

So you might say the idea that there seems to be some kind of instinct for ethical responses just as there's a language instinct you might think that's fairly uncontroversial. matched

That seems right. matched

You might think further that there are particular kinds of responses, like reacting more strongly to one's daughter being in a fire than someone else, that are also matched

to be accounted for in a certain way, to be explained by evolution. matched

But then there would be a further claim, and the further claim would be matched

It's not just that evolution explains this kind of capacity and this set of basic responses, but it justifies them. matched

That's a further claim that some philosophers have wanted to make about evolutionary explanations. matched

What do you make of that claim? matched

Is that one that you're sympathetic to? matched

Okay, so there's some really important distinctions, I think, there. matched

So let me see if I've understood it all right. matched

So by a normative standpoint, you mean something like matched

Me taking a perspective on a certain thing that I should do it. matched

So taking a normative standpoint is thinking I should save that person. matched

Right. matched

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