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Partner choice, fairness, and the extension of morality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2013

Nicolas Baumard ,
Jean-Baptiste André  and
Dan Sperber
Nicolas Baumard
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PN, United Kingdom; and Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. nbaumard@gmail.comhttp://sites.google.com/site/nicolasbaumard/
Jean-Baptiste André
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Ecologie et Evolution, UMR 7625, CNRS – Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France; and Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France. jeanbaptisteandre@gmail.comhttp://jb.homepage.free.fr/HomepageJB/welcome.html
Dan Sperber
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Science and Department of Philosophy, Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Hungary. dan@sperber.frhttp://www.dan.sperber.fr
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Abstract

Our discussion of the commentaries begins, at the evolutionary level, with issues raised by our account of the evolution of morality in terms of partner-choice mutualism. We then turn to the cognitive level and the characterization and workings of fairness. In a final section, we discuss the degree to which our fairness-based approach to morality extends to norms that are commonly considered moral even though they are distinct from fairness.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 102 - 122
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