Human conversation and the evolution of ethics in Kitcher's pragmatic naturalism

pp. 310-325

in: Elvis Imafidon (ed), The ethics of subjectivity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

Ethics emerges as a human phenomenon, permanently unfinished. We collectively, made it up, and have developed, refined, and distorted it, generation by generation. Ethics should be understood as a project — the ethical project — in which we have been engaged for most of our history as a species.1