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		<title>The Ethical Project: The Future of Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last in my series in response to Philip Kitcher’s new book, The Ethical Project. You can read my initial review, my look at our evolving moral psychology, on moral functionalism, and my last post on ethical progress. In this post I want to sum up my thoughts on Kitcher’s naturalistic programme and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=879&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethical Project: Measuring Ethical Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I consider the notion of ethical progress. It follows on from my review of  Philip Kitcher’s The Ethical Project, then my post looking at the evolution of our moral psychology, and a post on moral functionalism. One of the core themes of Kitcher’s is to chart, and account for, the notion of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=877&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethical Project: Functionalism and Disagreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my first post on Philip Kitcher’s The Ethical Project I outlined his main argument. In the second post I addressed his account of the evolution of our moral psychology, and filled in a few gaps with my own account that I’m elaborating in my PhD thesis. In this post I look at moral disagreement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=874&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethical Project: Evolving Moral Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I offered my initial review of Philip Kitcher’s new book, The Ethical Project, which is a bold attempt to offer a thoroughly naturalistic rendering of ethics, devoid of any divinity or dubious metaphysics. And overall, I’m very pleased with the account – not least because it is largely in sync with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=872&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Ethical Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop back in time roughly five million years to the time of the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, and you’d likely spot roving troops of creatures not dissimilar to today’s great apes. Yet, while chimpanzees and the rest of our evolutionary cousins have changed relatively little over the last few million years, our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=864&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science Outreach: Plucking the Low Hanging Fruit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To its credit, the Australian Government is making a concerted push into science outreach through the tritely-named Inspiring Australia programme, including $5 million in funding through the equally tritely-named Unlocking Australia&#8217;s Potential grant scheme. Now, I&#8217;m all about science outreach. (In fact, I&#8217;m also all about philosophy outreach too. You might call it reason outreach, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=860&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you think if you met someone who stated convincingly that they believe stealing was wrong, and yet you knew that they were prone to theft, and did so in an entirely nonchalant manner? And when asked after stealing something whether they still believe stealing is wrong, they reply emphatically that, indeed, it is. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=858&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Empathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolution of empathy, and the altruism and cooperation it encourages, is a bit of a curly problem. It&#8217;s well known that groups that employ a particular minimal threshold level of altruism can potentially outcompete groups that are less cooperative. The problem is, beneath this threshold level, it&#8217;s difficult to see how empathy and altruism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=856&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Moral Relativity and Conformity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways of living socially, and many moral systems that foster social and cooperative behaviour – none perfect, but some better than others in certain environments. That’s the crux of moral ecology, a theory I’m elaborating in my PhD thesis. At its heart, moral ecology stresses that any norm, or system or norms, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=852&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cut, jab, thrust, confusion! That seems to be the spirit of an ongoing exchange between Michael Ruse and Jason Rosenhouse of Evolutionblog. It started with scientism, the term (often used in the pejorative) applied to the notion that science is the best/only way of knowing the world. It then shifts to a somewhat complex (but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080375&amp;post=848&amp;subd=ockhamsbeard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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