Darwin, Evolution, Morality and Religion

In this video, I explore what evolution can tell us about morality and some of the debates that have raged around this question since the 1970s.

Friended's Where Does Morality Come From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcgPFrmbng

Economics Decoded's Conflict of Visions summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCSbANBeuI

References:

Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene (1976; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
de Waal, Frans, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society (New York: Harmony Books, 2009).
Dennett, Daniel, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York and London: Penguin, 1995).
Greene, Joshua, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (London: Atlantic Books, 2014).
Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics (New York: Random House, 2012).
Harris, Sam, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (London: Bantam Press, 2010).
Hauser, Marc D., Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (New York: Harper Collins, 2006).
Herman, Arthur, The Cave and the Light: Plato versus Aristotle and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (New York: Random House, 2013).
Muir, W.M., ‘Group Selection for Adaptation to Multiple-Hen Cages: Selection Program and Direct Responses’, Poultry Science, 75 (1996), 447-58.
Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Behaviour (New York and London: Penguin, 2002).
---, ‘The False Allure of Group Selection’, Edge (June 6, 2012), https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-the-false-allure-of-group-selection.
Sowell, Thomas, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, rev. ed. (1987; New York: Basic Books, 2007).
Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides, ‘Letter to the Editor of The New York Review of Books on Stephen Jay Gould’s “Darwinian Fundamentalism” (June 12, 1997) and “Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism”’ (June 26, 1997): http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html
Wilson, David Sloan, ‘Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, and the Consensus of the Many’, This View of Life (January 1 2015), https://evolution-institute.org/article/richard-dawkins-edward-o-wilson-and-the-consensus-of-the-many/.
Wilson, David Sloan, Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
---, ‘Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, and the Consensus of the Many’, This View of Life (January 1 2015), https://evolution-institute.org/article/richard-dawkins-edward-o-wilson-and-the-consensus-of-the-many/.
Wilson, Edward O., Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
---, On Human Nature, rev. ed (1978; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are (London: Abacus, 1994).