Advisors: Gerald J. Postema Committee members: Luc Bovens; Geoffrey Sayre-McCord.
Özet:
In their forthcoming book The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell argue that evolutionary theory cannot explain the inclusivist anomaly---the relatively recent emergence of inclusivist moral commitments such as commitments to abolition or human rights---because the motivations which brought about the inclusivist anomaly are not accounted for by evolutionary theory. I argue, pace Buchanan and Powell, that evolutionary theory can account for the motivations which brought about the inclusivist anomaly, and that the inclusivist anomaly is therefore not an anomaly after all.