Field Museum Spring Systematics Symposium; Chicago, IllinoisMay 1990

伦理判断的理解和意义是 对所有公民来说都是最重要的。 特别问题 然而，科学界的兴趣在于， 是伦理学和进化论之间的关系， 进化伦理学是一个合理的分析主题。 这些问题，由赫伯斯宾塞的工作， 1870年代，在过去得到了肯定的回答， 强烈反对。 进化论伦理学随着社会 达尔文主义在十九世纪后期和十九世纪初 二十世纪的最后一个世纪 现在，可能是因为 社会生物学和相关的争议，有一个更新的 的兴趣，并重新审视， 进化伦理学 目前，一个严格的（和情感） 对进化伦理的重新思考跨越了政治和 女权主义立场 一方面，存在一个 进化论的保守政治观点 生物学有助于支持保守的观点， 社会生物学，另一方面，社会学家， 共产主义者声称有一个进化的道德基础。 专题讨论会将分析对 进化伦理学，指出所有的困难， 解释，并主张和反对的合法性， 进化伦理学的伦理分析。

The understanding and meaning of ethical judgements are of greatest importance to all citizens. Questions of particular interest to the scientific community, however are whether there is a relation between ethics and evolution and whether a system of evolutionary ethics is a legitimate subject of analysis. These questions, initiated by Herber Spencer's work in the 1870's, have been answered in the past either in the positive, or vehemently opposed. Evolutionary ethics blossomed as Social Darwinism in the later part of the nineteenth and the beginnings of the twentieth centuries. Now, probably strengthened by sociobiology and the associated controversies, there is a renewed interest in, and a reexamination of, the possibilities of evolutionary ethics. Presently a rigorous (and emotional) rethinking of evolutionary ethics cuts across political and feminist positions. On the one hand there exists an evolutionary, conservative political view based on evolutionary biology which lends itself to support the conservative views of sociobiology, and on the other hand sociologists and even communists have claimed an evolutionary moral ground. The symposium will analyze the position taken on evolutionary ethics, point out the difficulties with all interpretations, and argue for and against the legitimacy of ethical analysis of evolutionary ethics.