Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Melissa Wheeler has engaged in paid and pro-bono consulting and research relating to issues of social justice, applied ethics, and ...

Morality is not declining in the modern world. Instead, a new morality is replacing the previous one. Centered on individual self-fulfillment, and linked to administrative government, it permits ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...

If you want to understand and explain morality, the first useful step is to be sure you're clear on your definition of morality. This first step has, unfortunately, been a stumbling point for many ...

Every once in a while, I read the news and I think "Damn. If only more people knew about virtue ethics." What am I talking about? When we talk about morality, we talk about what's right and what's ...

Where does this impressive, humans-only thing come from? How did we manage to be so blessed? The more traditional idea about the origin of human morality regards it as a code or a system of positive ...

Morality is innate and has evolutionary origins, argues Paul Bloom in Just Babies: The origins of good and evil, which highlights the inherent goodness of babies PUT on a puppet show for 3-month ...

While playing The Godfather back in 2007, my friend’s father walked into the room just in time to see my character 'Aldo' throw a random passer-by against a wall and beat him senseless. The old man ...