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In Philip Kitcher’s words,
Ethics emerges as a human phenomenon, permanently unfinished. We collectively, made it up, and have developed, refined, and distorted it, generation by generation. Ethics should be understood as a project — the ethical project — in which we have been engaged for most of our history as a species.1
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Philip Kitcher (2011), The Ethical Project (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), p. 2. see also Philip Kitcher (2012), Précis of the Ethical Project, Analyse & Kritik 34 (1), p. 1
Matthew Braddock & Alexander Rosenberg (2012), “Reconstruction in Moral Philosophy?” Analyse & Kritik 34 (1), pp. 63–80.
Philip Kitcher (2011), Science in a Democratic Society (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Press), p. 49.
C. Mantzavalous (2012), “The Ethical Project: A Dialogue,” Analyse & Kritik 34 (1), p. 34.
Philip Kitcher (2012), “Afterthoughts. Reply to Commentsin,” Analyse & Kritik 34 (1), p. 170.
Kim Sterelny (2012), “Morality’s Dark Past,” Analyse & Kritik 34 (1), 95–115.
John Mackie (1977), Inventing Right and Wrong (London).
Peter Singer (1980), Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (New York).
Brian Skyrm (1996), Evolution of the Social Contract (Cambridge).
Robert Nozick (2001), Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Zed Adams (2012), “Genealogies of Ethics,” Analyse & Kritik 34 (1), p. 161.
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Akintunde, F.A. (2015). Human Conversation and the Evolution of Ethics in Kitcher’s Pragmatic Naturalism. In: Imafidon, E. (eds) The Ethics of Subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472427_18
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