ABSTRACT
In his famous discussion of inductive inferences, David Hume gives one of the most notorious debunking arguments in Western philosophy. Hume provides an account of the source of mistakes, of where the idea of causation comes from, and why belief in causal connections is so natural and persistent. A full tour through the recent outgrowth of literature at the intersection of evolutionarily informed behavioral science, empirical moral psychology, and moral philosophy would try most readers' patience, but a few distinctions and landmarks will help orient the discussion to come. This chapter considers in more detail the picture of the mind that emerges out of evolutionarily informed cognitive science, and how it construes the mind's component parts, mechanisms, and processes, including those that underpin our moral capacities. Since human minds evolved, they can and should be investigated like the products of natural selection they are.
