This special issue contains 11 articles that are revisions of keynote lectures and papers that
were presented during the conference 'Moral Progress: Concepts, Measurements, and …

I will, first, outline what we currently know about the last 4 million years of human
evolutionary history, from bipedal but small‐brained Australopithecus to modern Homo …

Evolutionary moral realism is the view that there are moral values with roots in evolution that
are both specifically moral and exist independently of human belief systems. In beginning to …

What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we seek to" make the
world a better place"? What connects the different ways in which moral agents, their actions …

Standard evolutionary explanations seem unable to account for inclusivist shifts that expand
the circle of moral concern beyond strategically relevant cooperators. Recently, Allen …

The debate over moral bioenhancement has incrementally intensified since 2008, when
Persson and Savulescu, and Douglas wrote two separate articles on the reasons why …

On occasion one hears debates about whether or not the history of man-or, perhaps, the
history of civilized man-shows that some sort of" progress" has taken place. It is wholly …

Editorial Introduction to 'Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives'.
The four principal papers presented here, with interdisciplinary commentary discussion and …

At first glance, one of the most obvious places to look for moral progress is in individuals, in
particular in moral development from childhood to adulthood. In fact, that moral progress is …

The evolution of morality is both highly contested and the background to philosophical and
theological accounts of the intellectual and practical virtues that comprise wisdom. Some …