The inevitability of normative analysis.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Published: August 2014

Wilson et al. make the case for taking control of our future using evolutionary analysis. However, they are entirely silent on the ethical questions that must be addressed. This piece emphasizes this problem and notes that the relevant answers will require nontrivial analysis. This is where the humanities become relevant - in particular, philosophy and cultural anthropology.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13003270DOI Listing

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