Moral sense theories

This chapter considers moral sense theories drawn from recent work in comparative psychology and in human psychology considered phylogenetically and ontogenetically. Moral capacities play an important role in EMR. They are clearly part of the evolutionary development of morality as we know it. To further develop EMR, we need a better idea of what such capacities look like and how they have developed within and across species. We also need to see why, by themselves, theories focused solely on these capacities are unlikely to provide a full explanation of morality as a biological phenomenon. The question is what EMR adds to these theories to make them more complete accounts of morality.