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Evolutionary Debunking and Normative Arguments Against Theism
Sophia ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s11841-021-00830-y
Scott M. Coley

The levers of natural selection are random genetic mutation, fitness for survival, and reproductive success. Defenders of the evolutionary debunking account (EDA) hold that such mechanisms aren’t likely to produce cognitive faculties that reliably form true moral beliefs. So, according to EDA, given that our cognitive faculties are a product of unguided natural selection, we should be in doubt about the reliability of our moral cognition. Let the term ‘sanspsychism’ describe the view that no supramundane consciousness exists. In arguing against theism, some sanspsychists advance a normative claim about the moral significance of phenomena like sentient suffering. But if no supramundane consciousness exists, our cognitive faculties are a product of unguided natural selection. It follows that if EDA is correct, the sanspsychist should not think that our moral cognition is reliable. So unless the sanspsychist has a defeater for EDA, she should not think herself justified in appealing to normative reasons for denying the existence of God.



中文翻译:

进化论的揭穿与反对有神论的规范论证

自然选择的手段是随机的基因突变,适合生存和生殖成功。进化论揭穿帐(EDA)的捍卫者认为,这种机制不太可能产生能够可靠地形成真正道德信念的认知能力。因此,根据EDA,鉴于我们的认知能力是不受指导的自然选择的产物,因此我们应该对道德认知的可靠性产生怀疑。让“ sanspsychism”一词描述不存在超灵通意识的观点。在反对有神论时,一些无理论者提出了一种规范性的主张,即关于诸如有情苦的现象的道德意义。但是,如果不存在超自然意识,那么我们的认知能力就是未经指导的自然选择的产物。因此,如果EDA是正确的,散心理学家不应该认为我们的道德认知是可靠的。因此,除非Sanspsychist主义者在EDA上有失败者,否则她不应认为自己在诉诸否认上帝存在的规范性理由方面是有道理的。

更新日期:2021-03-14
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