ASEBL Journal Volume 13 Issue 1 January 2018

January 2018 Volume 13, Issue 1 EDITOR Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. ~ GUEST CO-EDITOR Clayton Shoppa, Ph.D. ~ EDITORIAL BOARD Divya Bhatnagar, Ph.D. Kristy Biolsi, Ph.D. ASEBL Journal Association for the Study of (Ethical Behavior)•(Evolutionary Biology) in Literature St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. ▬ THIS ISSUE FEATURES Papers from the Moral Sense Colloquium III Held at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, 2 June 2017 — (To Navigate to Articles, Click on Author’s Last Name) — ACADEMIC ESSAYS BY PHILOSOPHERS Alison Dell, Ph.D. † Clayton Shoppa, “Neurobiology, Intention and Decision.” p. 3 Tom Dolack, Ph.D Comment by David C. Lahti. p. 7 Wendy Galgan, Ph.D. Joe Keener, Ph.D. Eric Luttrell, Ph.D. † Jonathan R. Goodman, “The Importance of Practical Understanding for Al- truistic Behavior.” p. 10 Comment by Jacob Sparks. p. 17 Riza Öztürk, Ph.D. † Jacob Sparks, “Moral Perception and Morally Relevant Perception.” p. 19 Eric Platt, Ph.D. Comment by Jonathan R. Goodman. p. 28 Anja Müller-Wood, Ph.D. SCIENCE CONSULTANT Kathleen A. Nolan, Ph.D. EDITORIAL INTERN Vukasin Petrovic † James S. Freeman, “Teleological Concepts in Evolutionary Theory Applied to Human-Directed Evolution.” p. 30 Comment by Clayton Shoppa. p. 39 A BIOLOGIST’S REFLECTION ON CULTURAL EVOLUTION † Kathleen Nolan, “From Leviathan to Saint: When and Why Did Our Feelings About Whales Change?” p. 41 Comment by Ian S. Maloney. p. 48 Contributors, p. 50 ASEBL Journal Copyright©2018 E-ISSN: 1944-401X [email protected] www.asebl.blogspot.com Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals Although this is an open-access journal where papers and articles are freely disseminated across the internet for personal or academic use, the rights of individual authors as well as those of the journal and its editors are none- theless asserted: no part of the journal can be used for commercial purposes whatsoever without the express written consent of the editor. Cite as: ASEBL Journal