The abolition of slavery, the endorsement of equal rights regardless of race, ethnicity and
gender and the inclusion of animals in the moral community—these are all developments …

Abstract Allen Buchanan and Russel Powell's The Evolution of Moral Progress (EMP) is
likely to become a landmark. It adeptly builds on much of the recent empirical work, weaving …

In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project
of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide …

Moral progress may be a matter of time scale. If intuitive measures of moral progress like the
degree of physical violence within a society are taken as empirical markers, then most …

The idea of moral progress played a central role in liberal political thought from the
Enlightenment through the nineteenth century but is rarely encountered in moral and …

Buchanan and Powell's ambitious work offers a wide-ranging philosophical treatment about
one of social science's active inquries: human morality and how it evolved. This review …

In The evolution of morality, Richard Joyce sets himself not one but two ambitious goals. He
aims to show that the claim that morality is innate is coherent, plausible and supported by …

The paper explores the interplay among moral progress, evolution and moral realism.
Although it is nearly uncontroversial to note that morality makes progress of one sort or …

Assuming that there is moral progress, and assuming that the abolition of slavery is an
example of it, how does moral progress occur? Is it mainly driven by specific individuals who …

Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot‐binding have been abolished,
democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in …