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"Moral Realism” May Prompt Better Behaviour: Patricia Delaney
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (February 2013) — Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences...
Can Machines Learn Morality?:The Smithsonian
When John Brennan, President Obama’s choice to be the next head of the CIA, appeared before a Senate committee yesterday, one question...
Moral Evaluations of Harm are Instant and Emotional, Brain Study Shows
People are able to detect, within a split second, if a hurtful action they are witnessing is intentional or accidental, new research on the brain at...
Is Morality Flexible and Why Does it Matter?
Is it morally wrong for a brother and sister to make love? How about making love to a dead chicken? In studies using these dilemmas, people report...
Point schoolies to moral compass
Schoolies is the week when a lot of parents put a lot of trust into a lot of teenagers. Everyone knows there is going to be release from the...
Infidelity: A Moral Dilemma?
Gen. David Petraeus stepped down from his position as CIA director last week due to an extramarital affair with his biographer -- married author and...
Animals Are Moral Creatures, Scientist Argues
Does Mr. Whiskers really love you or is he just angling for treats? Until recently, scientists would have said your cat was snuggling up to you only...
Babies help unlock the origins of morality
It's a question people have asked for as long as there have been people: are human beings inherently good? Are we born with a sense of morality...
Moral compass: is Australia a kind nation?
We’re in a state of moral decline in the West – or so we’re told. From sky-rocketing divorce rates and the shrinking of life-long...
Does Morality Matter in Managing Businesses’
One of the great debates of modern capitalism is whether or not morality matters in business. This question is often posed as: “Should...
Can Neuroscience Challenge Roe V. Wade?
When I was asked this summer to serve as an expert witness in an appellate case that some think could lead to the next Supreme Court test of Roe v....
A Good Person
What does it mean to be a good person? Does it depend on wealth or qualifications or is it more than that? Can you become 'good' or do you...
Animal Morality Research Suggests We All Have Complex Emotions
As young children, most of us are taught right from wrong. Growing up, we were encouraged to say "please" and "thank you," and to...
The church and the ethics of climate change
The question of what to do about climate change is fundamentally a moral one. Who is responsible for the problem? Who will be most harmed? What are...
Babies ‘Moral Compass’ Called Into Question By New Research
Do babies have an innate moral compass? In recent years, scientists have presented evidence that tykes have an inborn sense of justice, but a new...
Disasters bring out best and worse
An engineering company that makes equipment for army vehicles is ransacked. Two men are disturbed breaking into a convenience store. Three people are...
A Tale of Two Moralities
On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to “expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our...
How to ask awkward questions and annoy people
In his endless pursuit of Truth, Socrates made many enemies. Yet his questioning outlook remains invaluable to understanding the present. Diogenes...
Young Americans look to Jon Stewart for news
With his 'rally to restore sanity', Jon Stewart has become the figurehead for American liberalism – not bad for a comedy show host. One does...
We must stop saying ‘The science demands ...’
Top climate-change expert Mike Hulme tells spiked it is a scandal that scientific claims are increasingly usurping politics and morality. ...
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