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 ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...

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 ...

A LUCID dream has three phases. First you experience the dream as reality. Then you recognise it as a product of your mind. Finally, you gain the power of control. Morality is proceeding along similar ...

All evolutionary attempts to explain morality ultimately miss the point. They seek to explain morality, but even at their best what they explain is not morality at all. Imagine a shopkeeper who ...

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 ...

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 ...