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I summarize recent discussion in this journal and in Woolcock(1999) of the relevance of evolution to the question of thereality of moral rightness and wrongness. I show thata satisfactory version of Ruse-type evolutionaryethics has been adequately defended.
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Ryan, J.A. Woolcock, Ruse, Again. Biology & Philosophy 15, 733–735 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006711232265
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