摘要：Placing Goodenough and Deacon’s “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality” against the background of
the ethical naturalism of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British moral theory, Yeager highlights the
contribution the authors make to the moral sense tradition as well as indicating the limitations of such accounts
of moral agency, judgment, and conduct. Yeager also identifies two strands of the essay that seem to open
toward a more comprehensive account than the authors actually give. The first concerns the “interplay
between self-interest and pro-sociality,” and the other concerns the ethical implications of coevolution. On
the latter point, the work of G. H. Mead is offered as an illuminating contrast.
关键词：ethics, moral sense theory, U. Goodenough, T.W. Deacon, G. H. Mead, social
construction, emergence, coevolution
