Patricia Churchland will discuss "Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality" at The Book Works in Del Mar on March 10 at 7 p.m. What if a group of humans never heard about religion or any ...

It’s no secret that people can’t always explain their moral choices. In a phenomenon dubbed “moral dumbfounding,” for example, people will ardently insist on the immorality of sex between consenting ...

This is the key distinction, then: moral conscience (regulating one’s own behavior) does not appear to straightforwardly explain moral condemnation (regulating the behavior of others). Despite this, ...

I recently read a column on CNN.com by Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and visiting professor of business ethics at the NYU-Stern School of Business. In the ...

Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending ...

Among the available metaethical views, it would seem that moral realism—in particular moral naturalism—must explain the possibility of moral progress. We see this in the oft-used argument from ...

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I could tell even before opening the door of the sauna at the local YMCA that the conversation was lively. “Meet our new young resident philosopher,” a friend said to me as I entered. I sat down, and ...

David Brooks rightly holds that the evolutionary picture of human nature is inadequate: [The] strictly evolutionary view of human nature sells humanity short. It leaves the impression that we are just ...