Text book:
Katz, L., ed. (2000) Evolutionary Origins of Morality, Imprint Academic
Articles:
Axelrod, R. (1981). The Emergence of Cooperation Among Egoists. The American Political Science Review 75: 306-318.
Trivers, R. L. (1971). The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism. The Quarterly Review of Biology 46 (1): 35-57.
Maynard Smith, J. (1976). Evolution and the Theory of Games: In situations characterized by conflict of interest, the best strategy to adopt depends on what others are doing. American Scientist, 64(1): 41-45.
Maynard Smith, J. (1964). Group selection and kin selection. Nature 201: 1145-1147.
Sober, E. and Wilson, D. S. (1998). A Unified Evolutionary Theory of Social Behavior, In: Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Harvard University Press: 55-100.
West, S. A., Griffin, A. S., & Gardner, A. (2007). Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection. Journal of evolutionary biology, 20(2): 415-432.
Selected replies to Sober and Wilson, tbd.
Skyrms, B. (2000). Game Theory, Rationality, and Evolution of the Social Contract, In: Evolutionary Origins of Morality (ed. L. Katz), Imprint Academic: 269-284.
Gintis, H. (2000). Classical versus Evolutionary Game Theory. In: Evolutionary Origins of Morality (ed. L. Katz), Imprint Academic: 300-304.
D’Arms, J. (2000). When Evolutionary Game Theory Explains Morality, What Does It Explain? In: Evolutionary Origins of Morality: 296-299.
Richerson, P. J. and Boyd, R. (1998). The Evolution of Human Ultra-Sociality. In: Ideology, Warfare, and Indoctrinability (eds. I. Eibl-Eibisfeldt and F. Salter), Berghahn Books: 71-95.
Bowles, S. and Gintis, H. (2003). Origins of Human Cooperation. In: Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation (P. Hammerstein, ed.), The MIT Press: 429-444.
West, S. A., El Mouden, C., & Gardner, A. (2011). Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(4): 231-262.
Silk, J. (2006) The Evolution of Cooperation in Primate Groups. In: Moral sentiments and material interests: The foundations of cooperation in economic life (eds. H. Gintis, S. Bowles, R. Boyd, and E. Fehr), The MIT Press: 43-74.
Flack, J.C. and de Waal, F.B.M. (2000). Any Animal Whatever: Darwinian Building Blocks of Morality in Monkeys and Apes. In. Evolutionary Origins of Morality: 1-30.
Selected replies to Flack and de Waal, tbd.
Boehm, C. (2000). Conflict and the Evolution of Social Control. In: Evolutionary Origins of Morality: 79-101.
Kitcher, P. (2006). Between Fragile Altruism and Morality: Evolution and the Emergence of Normative Guidance. In: Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology (Eds. G. Boniolo and G. De Anna), Cambridge University Press: 159-177.
Selected replies to Boehm, tbd.
Joyce, R. (2006). The Evolution of Morality, Chs. 5+6 “The Evolutionary Vindication of Morality” + “The Evolutionary Debunking of Morality”, Bradford: 143-220.
Street, S. (2006). A Darwinian dilemma for realist theories of value. Philosophical Studies 127 (1):109-166.
Schafer, K. (2010). Evolution and Normative Scepticism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (3):471-488.
Kahane, G. (2011). Evolutionary Debunking Arguments. Noûs 45 (1):103-125.
Gibbard, A. (1990), Wise Choices, Apt Feelings. A Theory of Normative Judgment, Part I (excerpts), Clarendon.
Dogramaci, S. (2012). Reverse Engineering Epistemic Evaluations. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 84 (3): 513-530.
Dutilh Novaes, C. (forthcoming) A dialogical account of deductive reasoning as a case study for how culture shapes cognition, Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Humphrey, N. (1976). The social function of intellect. In: Growing points in ethology (eds P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde), Cambridge University Press: 303–317.
Dunbar (2003). The social brain: mind, language and society in evolutionary perspective. Ann. Rev. Anthrop. 32: 163-181.
Byrne, R. and Whiten, A. (1997). Machiavellian intelligence, In: Machiavellian Intelligence II: Extensions and Evaluations (eds. R. Byrne and A. Whiten), Cambridge University Press: 1-24.
Sterelny, Kim (2003). Thought in a Hostile World. Part II “Not Just Another Species of Large Mammal”, Blackwell: 97-174.
Moll, H., and Tomasello, M. (2007). Co-operation and human cognition: The Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 362: 639-648.
Excerpts from: Tomasello, M. (in press). A Natural History of Human Thinking. Harvard University Press.
Optional readings:
Levy, A. (2011). Game Theory, Indirect Modeling, and the Origin of Morality. Journal of Philosophy 108 (4):171-187.
Rachels, S., and Alter, T. (2005). Nothing Matters in Survival. The Journal of Ethics, 9(3-4): 311-330.
Mercier, H., & Sperber, D. (2011). Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(2): 57-74.