ABSTRACT
The evolutionary debunking argument assumes that moral judgments are caused by natural selection. As natural selection operates independently from these judgments’ truth, proponents of the argument claim, they are epistemically unjustified. But are moral judgments really caused by natural selection? In this chapter, I first explain in which sense this hypothesis would have to be true in order for the evolutionary debunking argument to work. Then I show that scientific evidence from design, universality and poverty of stimulus fails to support the hypothesis in this sense (both for conceptual and general methodological reasons).
