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Sexual Selection, Moral Virtues, and Methodological Vices

Geoffrey Miller’s (2000, 2007) theory that morality is “a system of sexually selected handicaps” seems incompatible with the prevailing view in contemporary moral psychology according to which no sex differences in moral reasoning exist. However, if morality is a sexually selected trait, there are several reasons why there should be sex differences in moral reasoning. Although Miller avoids such objections by using auxiliary hypotheses that explain similarity of male and female minds despite sexual selection, it is argued that these auxiliary hypotheses turn into methodological vices of the theory, rendering it nearly immune to empirical testing.

Sexual selection; moral virtues; moral reasoning; sex differences; auxiliary hypotheses; falsifiability

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