Print Email Facebook Twitter Moral ape philosophy Title Moral ape philosophy Author De Boer, J. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values and Technology Date 2011-06-17 Abstract Our closest relative the chimpanzee seems to display proto-moral behavior. Some scholars emphasize the similarities between humans and chimpanzees, others some key differences. This paper aims is to formulate a set of intermediate conditions between a sometimes helpful chimpanzee and moral man. I specify these intermediate conditions as requirements for the chimpanzees, and for each requirement I take on a verificationist stance and ask what the empirical conditions that satisfy it would be. I ask what would plausibly count as the behavioral correlate of each requirement, when implemented. I take a philosophical look at morality using the chimpanzees as a prism. We will talk of propositional attitudes, rationality and reason in relation to the chimps. By means of the chimps I intend to arrive at a notion of objective morality as conceived from a first person point of view in terms of propositional attitudes and reasons. Subject ChimpanzeesMoralityFrans de WaalCreature construction To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c17f161c-01b2-4026-9505-40fb2881f620 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-011-9283-1 Publisher Springer Verlag ISSN 0169-3867 Source Biology and Philosophy, 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2011 De Boer, J.This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF boer2011.pdf 184.71 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c17f161c-01b2-4026-9505-40fb2881f620/datastream/OBJ/view