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tion of the particular laws. For instance, the Fang and many other people consider that proper behavior, toward one's family for ...

As far as anthropologists know, people in most places conceive of some supernatural agents as having some interest in their deci ...

particular deeds of particular people, but there is no way to see how these apply to different situations unless one completes t ...

processes. The simple argument "She lied to him, but he's always been perfectly frank with her" is a mix of this kind: it (a) im ...

deficient in that form of reasoning. It might be that they are not aware of the general principles or that they have difficultie ...

development of morality if young children did not have some inkling of moral concepts. As philosophers used to say, you cannot d ...

cise intuitions and the explicit concepts that would justify them. The gap is even larger in children, who lack the verbal sophi ...

all right to steal an eraser). Also, children differentiate between moral principles and prudential rules (e.g., "Do not leave y ...

invoking abstract principles is irrelevant; that a course of action is in actual fact right or wrong regardless of how the agent ...

DISPOSITIONS FOR COOPERATION Why do we have this specific domain of understanding, these spe- cific capacities for moral judgeme ...

and spreading their genes around, since they would never forgo their individual benefits. They would have an especially easy tim ...

replication, the picture is quite different. Biologist William Hamil- ton combined empirical data with mathematical models to sh ...

BEYOND OPPORTUNISM Kin selection and reciprocal altruism are not the only factors involved in human cooperative behavior. People ...

Throughout human history, a number of commitment gadgets have helped solve such problems. In our modern conditions, for instance ...

untouched. If people around us were all rational calculators they would sometimes behave and sometimes cheat. So it would be dan ...

to the head of the line makes you angry even if you are standing in another line. The existence of such dispositions tends to ma ...

fare between them. The likelihood that members of other tribes will cooperate is not that great, given that we cannot read their ...

FULL-ACCESS AGENTS AND MORAL INTUITIONS Moral intuitions are part of our mental dispositions for social interac- tion. But why a ...

this is relevant to our social mind inference systems. Whether the banknote was crumpled or not and whether it is in your left- ...

extremely vague. That is, most of o u r m o r a l i n t u i t i o n s are clear but their origin escapes us, because it lies in ...