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By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellect...more

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Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair...more

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The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex is natural and go...more

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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the research...more

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Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends rea...more

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I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

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Why give a robot an order to obey orders—why aren't the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harm—wouldn't it be easier never to comm...more

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No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give the...more

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Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is unchangeable, “natural” in the sense of good, or so...more

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The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indeed, the accusation is baffling on the face of it, e...more

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The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freu...more

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The universality of reason is a momentous realization, because it defines a place for morality. If I appeal to you do do something that affects me—to ...more

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Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the moral evil in war o...more