Evolutionary Explanations of Morality
- Starts: 1:00 pm on Friday, September 27, 2013
- Ends: 6:00 pm on Friday, September 27, 2013
The first session of this year’s Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science brings together evolutionary psychologists, philosophers of biology, and ethicists to discuss the status and implications of evolutionary explanations of morality.
1pm Ethics as a Human Project
Philip Kitcher
(Philosophy, Columbia University)
2pm Morality Did Not Evolve
Edouard Machery
(History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh)
3pm The Limits of Evolutionary Explanations of Morality
Russell Powell
(Philosophy, Boston University)
4pm Why Evolution Doesn't Debunk Ethical Realism
William FitzPatrick
(Philosophy, University of Rochester)
5pm Strategic Morality
Robert Kurzban
(Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)
This event is co-sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
This event is the Alfred I. Tauber Forum.
- Speakers:
- Philip Kitcher, Edouard Machery, Russell Powell, William FitzPatrick, Robert Kurzban
- Audience:
- public
- Address:
- BU School of Law (765 Commonwealth Avenue)
- Room:
- Barristers Hall
- Fees:
- free
- Registration:
- http://www.bu.edu/cphs
- Contact Organization:
- Center for Philosophy and History of Science
- Contact Name:
- Erin Seeba