I argue that our general disposition to make moral judgments and our core moral intuitions are likely the product of social selection—a kind of gene–culture coevolution driven by the enforcement of collectively agreed-upon rules. Social selection could potentially track mind-independent moral truth by a process that I term realist social selection: our ancestors could have acquired moral knowledge via reason and enforced rules based on that knowledge, thereby creating selection pressures that drove the evolution of our moral psychology. Given anthropological evidence that early humans designed rules with the conscious aim of preserving individual autonomy and advancing their collective interests, the theory of realist social selection appears to be attractive for moral realists. The goal of evolutionary debunking arguments should be to show not that our moral beliefs are the product of natural selection, but that realist social selection did not occur.

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基因-文化共同进化如何——但可能没有追踪独立于思想的道德真理

我认为，我们做出道德判断的一般倾向和我们的核心道德直觉很可能是社会选择的产物——一种由执行集体商定的规则驱动的基因-文化共同进化。社会选择可以通过我称之为现实主义社会选择的过程潜在地追踪独立于思想的道德真理：我们的祖先可以通过理性获得道德知识并基于该知识强制执行规则，从而产生推动我们道德心理进化的选择压力。鉴于人类学证据表明，早期人类设计规则的目的是有意识地维护个人自主权和促进他们的集体利益，现实主义社会选择理论似乎对道德现实主义者有吸引力。