کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1161900 1490547 2008 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Could sexual selection have made us psychological altruists?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
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Could sexual selection have made us psychological altruists?
چکیده انگلیسی
Psychological altruism (being motivated by the needs of others) has a tendency to produce behaviour that is costly in evolutionary terms. How, then, could the capacity for psychological altruism evolve? One suggestion is that it is the result of sexual selection. There are, however, two problems that face such an account: first, it is not clear that the resulting behaviour would be altruistic in the relevant sense, and second, it does not seem to fit with key features of our actual helping behaviour. I will argue that both of these problems can be avoided if we adopt a modular account of desire formation.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 153-162
نویسندگان
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