Talk:Ethics and evolutionary psychology

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Under another name this page was the subject of a vote for deletion. No consensus to delete emerged; clean-up required. Page moved.

[edit] Ethical fitnessism

  • Original research, only 1 google hit. -- Graham :) 16:19, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Delete - I can't decide if it is an advertisement for the concept or what but it has no support - Texture 19:43, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep. It's not an advert - it claims to be about Dawkins - and quotes his work. Doesn't count as original research as it is clearly published. But - has anyone got the book to verify? I haven't. Secretlondon 22:18, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • If it's about Dawkin's parts of it should be merged with Richard Dawkins, I don't think it deserves a page of it's own with one Google hit. I don't think Dawkins actually uses the term "ethical fitnessism", but he may have mentioned "ethical fitness". --Lexor|Talk 03:58, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Move to something like Ethics and evolutionary psychology and keep. I'm fairly familiar with Dawkins' popular writings, and but for the idiosyncratic title it seems a fair statement of one ethical calculus based on sociobiology. Smerdis of Tlön 15:04, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

While this entry does work better under "Ethics and evolutionary psychology", it's more of an advertisement for an extreme socio-political view than a neutral definition. I added a few lines to balance it out a bit, but there's still the big problem of scope. Namely, "fitnessism" is, at best, a minor footnote in the overall topic of evpsych and ethics, so someone ought to write up a more comprehensive article under which this one can take its properly small place.

I just came across this page and found it quite bizarre. The only google hits for 'ethical fitnessism' seem to be derived from this Wikipedia page! with the possible exception of http://www.fitnessism.org/ I don't believe it's anything coming directly from Dawkins etc. I see this issue has already been raised.
I've gone ahead and deleted that whole section, which was also very personally worded, and instead tried to give an overview of EP and ethics which could then be improved and built on. I would imagine this page could be a useful way to expand the relevant sections within the EP and Ethics pages. EverSince 16:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Surely, this page should be merged in some way with Evolutionary psychology? How can an encyclopedia entry be named "Ethics and evolutionary psychology"? Are we waiting for it to be cleaned up sufficiently to make the merge sensible? If so, someone should define what exactly is expected of this article. - Samsara 15:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I've tried to clean it up/mainstream it but I don't know if it does need to be merged? EverSince 11:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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