[Revised entry by William FitzPatrick on July 15, 2025.
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An article in The Economist (21 February 2008, “Moral thinking”), sporting the provocative subtitle “Biology Invades a Field Philosophers Thought was Safely Theirs,” begins by asking: Whence morality? That is a question which has troubled philosophers since their subject was invented. Two and a half millennia of debate…
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