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Sociobiology and the roots of normativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Michael Bradie
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Abstract

Michael Bradie challenges the assumption, common among sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists, that it is to science, not philosophy, that we must look if we wish to answer the fundamental questions of ethics.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 2 , Issue 6 , Spring 2004 , pp. 73 - 82
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2004

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