Subject: 
        Re: [evol-psych] Huxleyan dualism of Dawkins and EP
   Date: 
        Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:18:48 -0700 (MST)
   From: 
        David Wolpert 
     To: 
        Larry Arnhart 
    CC: 
        [email protected]




I have to disagree with all of these anti-Dawkins sentiments.

Please, let us not fall for the naturalist fallacy! We must distinguish
between normative morality - how, based on logic and reasoning, we
determine that we *should* behave - from empirical morality - how, based
on natural selection, we *do* behave. The latter is the province of EP,
the former of ethics and philosophy.

Dawkins simply points out that the two are not identical. This strikes me
as almost tautological.

David Wolpert