Cognitive Niches as Moral Niches
Human Beings as Chance Seekers
The concept of cognitive niche is useful to frame morality and violence in a naturalistic perspective. The first sections of this chapter aim at deepening our understanding of this concept, taking advantage of an evolutionary framework that is ideally linked to the considerations I have provided in chapter one, focused on the role of coalition enforcement in illustrating violence as a natural (animal and human) behavior.
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Magnani, L. (2011). Moral and Violent Mediators. In: Understanding Violence. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistomology and Rational Ethics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21972-6_4
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