ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: From CharIes Darwin to Edward Wilson, evolutionary biologists have attempted 10 construct systems of evolutionary ethies. These attempts have been roundly eritieized, most often far having eommitted the naturaIislie fallaey. In this essay, I review the history of previous efforts at formulating an evolutionary ethies, foeusing on the proposals of Darwin and Wilson. I then advance and defend a proposaI of my own. In the last part of the essay, I try to demonstrate that my revised version of evolutionary ethies: (1) does not eommit the naturaIistie faIlacy as it is usually understood; (2) does, admittedly, derive vaIues from facts; but (3) does not eommit any faIlacy in doing so.
