Moral realism and teleosemantics

Biology and Philosophy 16 (5):723-31 (2001)
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In a recent article, William F. Harms (2000) argues in a novel way for a form of moral realism. He does not actually argue that moral realism is true, but rather that if morality is the product of natural selection

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The moral problem.Michael R. Smith - 1994 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
The Myth of Morality.Richard Joyce - 2001 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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