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北京大学外国哲学研究所学术讲座

进化与伦理

时间：2009年11月13日下午3点－5点
地点：外国哲学研究所227会议室

Kelly James Clark
Kelly James Clark is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College and visiting Professor at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University.  Kelly is author, co-author or editor of over fifty articles and more than a dozen books including Return to Reason, The Story of Ethics, and Philosophers Who Believe.  He has taught and lectured around the world. Kelly has organized ten conferences in China and is Director of “Values & Virtues in China.”

Evolution & Ethics
Kelly James Clark, Calvin College

The time has come, E. O. Wilson, bravely trumpeted, “for ethics to be temporarily removed from the hands of the philosophers and biologicized.” Can ethics survive biologicization—can it be grounded in evolution alone? Drawing upon our evolutionary history, evolutionary ethics finds within our pre-human ancestors some of the basic ingredients of human morality. From mammals, for example, we can see more social instincts, ones that mimic altruism, that provide the impetus for the development of human morality. In this essay we will look at the prospects and promise of evolutionary ethics. We will first consider the nature of morality and then various ways that evolutionary ethicists have sought to explain human morality.