Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Monday, September 07, 2026

The moral weight of Human - AI interactions

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I am passing on a document prepared for a meeting of the Chaos and Complex Systems discussion group at the University of Wisconsin Madison. ...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Points on having a self and free will.

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  A  podcast by Sam Harris  done several years ago summarizies his ideas on the question of whether we have free will and motivates me to do...
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...