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Biology vs. Moral Objectivity

dc.contributor.authorNikkhah Shirazi, Armin
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-18T00:35:08Z
dc.date.available2016-01-18T00:35:08Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-17
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/116829
dc.descriptionThe original version of this paper was written for the PHIL 320 Worldviews course offered at the University of Michigan.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipIn 1986, Ruse and Wilson argued that ethics is ultimately based on biology via epigenetic selection rules and thus has no objective basis independent of human evolution. This paper attempts to provide an original defense of Moral objectivism by means of constructing an analogy between ethics and mathematics based on three separate arguments. An objection to this argument based on dissimilarities between the two is largely unsuccessful as these seem to reflect mainly differences in how discourse may be conducted in the two different fields, but an objection based on denying that even the existence of mathematics has any basis apart from the existence of humans renders the defense irrelevant. Examining Ruse and Wilson's argument directly finds them to sweeping to follow from the evidence they present.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.titleBiology vs. Moral Objectivityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPhilosophy
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanities
dc.contributor.affiliationumPhilosophy, Department ofen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116829/1/Biology vs Moral Objectivity.pdf
dc.owningcollnamePhilosophy, Department of


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