Evolution, altruism and "internal reward" explanations

Philosophical Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 413-424

  Brunero, John S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 56049086066     PISSN: 0031806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9191.00003     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Sober, Elliot and David Sloan Wilson. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). All parenthetical notations in this paper refer to this work
2. Batson, C. D. The Altruism Question: Toward a Social-Psychological Answer. (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991)
3. See Broad, C. D. Ethics and the History of Philosophy. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952), pp. 218-231
4. This objection was originally presented by Sober in "Hedonism and Butler's Stone," Ethics 103 (October 1992), pp. 97-103. The discussion of it in Unto Others is not substantively different
5. Butler's argument on this point is found in Fifteen Sermons on Human Nature
6. Reprinted in L. A. Selby-Bigge (ed.), The British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 1 (New York: Dover Books, 1965), pp. 180-241
7. Nagel, Thomas. The Possibility of Altruism. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 80
8. Sober, "Hedonism and Butler's Stone," ibid., p. 103