{"id":2098,"date":"2010-07-22T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:00:07","slug":"moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral camouflage or moral monkeys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting short essay by Peter Railton on the authenticity of morality from an evolutionary point of view available <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moral-Camouflage-or-Moral-Monkeys_-The-New-York-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and open to discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/comments_Moral-Camouflage-or-Moral-Monkeys.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> with already some interesting contributions e.g. by Bill Benzon, Frans de Waal or Sally Haslanger. Railton argues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A picture thus emerges of selection for \u201cproximal psychological mechanisms\u201d\u2014 for example, individual dispositions like parental devotion, loyalty to family, trust and commitment among partners, generosity and gratitude among friends, courage in the face of enemies, intolerance of cheaters \u2014 that make individuals into good vehicles, from the gene\u2019s standpoint, for promoting the \u201cdistal goal\u201d of enhanced inclusive fitness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also Peter Railton&#8217;s discussion with Robert Wright on &#8220;Evolutionary Psychology and Moral Thinking&#8221; at Bloggingheads.tv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting short essay by Peter Railton on the authenticity of morality from an evolutionary point of view available here and open to discussion here with already some interesting contributions e.g. by Bill Benzon, Frans de Waal or Sally Haslanger. Railton argues: &#8220;A picture thus emerges of selection for \u201cproximal psychological mechanisms\u201d\u2014 for example, individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An interesting short essay by Peter Railton on the authenticity of morality from an evolutionary point of view available here and open to discussion here with already some interesting contributions e.g. by Bill Benzon, Frans de Waal or Sally Haslanger. Railton argues: &#8220;A picture thus emerges of selection for \u201cproximal psychological mechanisms\u201d\u2014 for example, individual [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-07-22T05:46:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-24T10:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The ICCI Team\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"0 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/\",\"name\":\"International Cognition and Culture Institute\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys\/\",\"name\":\"Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? - International Cognition and Culture Institute\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-07-22T05:46:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-24T10:00:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/#\/schema\/person\/3663e04874ff7df2f070d2982a1474ad\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/#\/schema\/person\/3663e04874ff7df2f070d2982a1474ad\",\"name\":\"The ICCI Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdc7166b2c4c44441b1c2c13cea716e8?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fcognitionandculture.local%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fbelle%2Fuser.png&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The ICCI Team\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18542,"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/18542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}