This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics.

How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examinin

A systematic analysis considers the objectivity of ethics, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalist worldview and its rol

There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection o

If human biological evolution is part of our worldview, then how do commonplace notions of ethics fit in? To ask the question, “what does evolution imply abou