This book was written by Richard Joyce and published in 2007. Joyce is an International Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney that has written a series of books that focus on investigating the relation between morality and evolution. In this book, Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgments is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. He asserts, moreover, that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, and demands that it does not make. This original and innovative book will appeal to readers interested in the problems of moral philosophy.
Richard Joyce. 2007. The Myth of Morality. Cambridge University Press.