scholarly journals The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique. The Jean Nicod Lectures. By Kim Sterelny. A Bradford Book. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $35.00. xvi + 242 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-262-01679-7. 2012.

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-176
Author(s):  
Mark Sprevak
Keyword(s):  
Kim Sterelny

Moral Nativism: Some Controversies

Dialogue ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
ROGER V.V. REX ◽  
PAULO C. ABRANTES
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Moral Judgements ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
Kim Sterelny ◽  
Time Ease ◽  
Jesse Prinz ◽  
Principles And Parameters

This paper scrutinizes two research programs that advocate respectively for the existence of a universal moral grammar and a predisposition to moralize behaviours with certain contents. It focuses on how the arguments commonly used to ground each program fare at relevant contemporary research in cognitive science and how well they meet constructivist arguments proposed by Jesse Prinz and Kim Sterelny, among others. We argue that there is little evidence that our moral judgements follow the model of principles and parameters. At the same time, ‘ease of learning’ suggests that the human brain is somehow prepared to learn moral rules.

Kim Sterelny

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 153-155
Author(s):  
John Sarnecki
Keyword(s):  
Kim Sterelny
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