Frans De Waal has a post on The Stone blog of the NYT on primate behavior and human morality entitled "Morals without God?"
We read De Waal's Primates and Philosophers (which includes comments by Robert Wright, Christine Korsgaard, Philip Kitcher, and Peter Singer), in the course on Evolution and Biology of Morality I've offered the last few years. Here are notes and study questions on Primates and Philosophers, as well as notes on MIchael Tomasello's Why We Cooperate, which has some brief, technical criticism of De Waal's work.
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