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SUMMARY:Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism - Kevin Brosnan (
 Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Alex Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:Controversies over the implications of Darwinism for ethics ha
 ve been swirling about for some time. Two of Darwin's contemporaries\, Fra
 nces Cobbe and Henry Sidgwick\, defend rather different views of the matte
 r. While Cobbe maintained that Darwin's theory\, if correct\, delivered a 
 deathblow to ethics\, Sidgwick dismissed evolutionary theory as irrelevant
  to ethics. Descendents of these contrasting views are to be found in cont
 emporary discussions. In this paper\, I consider those of the deathblow va
 riety that aim to undermine moral knowledge. I argue that moral knowledge 
 may be difficult to establish\, but that none of these difficulties arise 
 from Darwinian considerations.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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