Should the norms of honor cultures be classified as a variety of morality? In this paper, we address this question by considering various empirical bases on which norms can be taxonomically organised. This question is of interest both as an exercise in philosophy of social science, and for its...

This is a primer of intraspecies ethics, based on population genetics, sociobiology and simulation, for the species Homo sapiens sapiens, which is explored together with some applications. I wish to enhance the view that the formerly philosophical realm of ethics is deeply tied to the scientific...

The main insight of this paper is that moral behavior does not necessarily alleviate coordination problems or may even worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality preferences in a canonical model of voluntary...