Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Friday, May 03, 2024

Can there be scientific criteria for what is moral behavior?

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I want to pass on an essay by Sam Harris updating his 2011 book "The  Moral Landscape."   I'm doing this mainly so that I can...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Market exposure and human morality

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In the face of resurgent threats to place religion over the rest of civil society, and specious claims that we can't have a moral socie...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Points on having a self and free will.

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 A recent podcast by Sam Harris summarizing his ideas on the question of whether we have free will motivates me to do a further summary her...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Unethical amnesia

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An interesting study from Galeotti et al. (open source): Significance Using large-scale incentivized online experiments, we tested two po...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Reconsidering the value of believing in free will.

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Nadelhoffer et al. fail to replicate 2008 experiments suggesting that a belief in determinism increases cheating: A key source of support...
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Monday, October 28, 2019

Feeling grateful - a shortcut to virtuous behavior.

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Psychologist David DeSteno, in an Aeon essay , summarizes his experiments suggesting that moving towards a more virtuous life might accompl...
Friday, September 06, 2019

How personal and professional conduct relate to one another.

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From Griffin et al. : Significance The relative importance of personal traits compared with context for predicting behavior is a long-s...
Monday, August 26, 2019

From "Love Your Enemies" - Arthur Brooks on Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory

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I have read through Arthur Brooks' new book, "Love your Enemies," which addresses the many facets of our current political pol...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Can an uprising of decency win the next presidential election?

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I want to point to this massively cogent piece by David Brooks, and also pass on a video done by the democratic presidential candidate he m...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Self driving cars will have to decide who should live and who should die.

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Johnson points to a collaboration by Awad et al. that explored the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles. They designed an experimen...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Authentic lies.

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Hahl et al. suggest how a blatantly lying demagogue (guess who?) can be perceived as authentic: We develop and test a theory to address a ...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Why are religious people trusted more?

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A prevailing view is that religious behavior facilitate trust, primarily toward coreligionists, and particularly when it is diagnostic of be...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

The Philosophy we need: Personalism

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To his credit, David Brooks keeps searching for moral visions that might be an antidote to our current social and political malaise. A recen...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

The effort paradox - Effort is both costly and valued

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Inzlicht et al. do an interesting review article on how we (as well as some other animals) associate effort with reward, sometimes pursuing...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

If resources are scarce infants choose ingroup support over fairness.

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From Bian et al : Significance Recent research suggests that infants possess principles of fairness and ingroup support. We examined wh...