MORALITY

Psychologists claim deep link between science and morality

Xavier Symons | 31 August 2013 | Comments

tags: morality, science

American psychologists have released a study claiming that there is a strong link between exposure to science and moral behavior.

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Moral disgust: Is there wisdom in repugnance?

Xavier Symons | 01 June 2013 | Comments

tags: disgust, morality, repugnance

The 'yuk' factor can sometimes play a decisive role in our moral assessments. But how reliable a guide are our visceral reactions of disgust?

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Do we need a morality pill?

Michael Cook | 30 January 2012 | Comments

tags: enhancement, morality

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer and a research assistant, Agata Sagan, proposed a “morality pill” in a column in the New York Times this week. They speculate that moral behaviour is at least in part biochemically determined. Hence, it should be possible to engineer moral behaviour with drugs. Here is the scenario that they paint:

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Researchers call to end smoking in films

Jared Yee | 23 September 2011 | Comments

tags: films, healthcare, morality, UK

In a curious turn of moralising, UK researchers have called for films depicting smoking to be R-rated.

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Removing the ethics from bioethics

Michael Cook | 27 August 2011 | Comments

tags: amoralism, bioethics, morality

The New York Times philosophy blog likes edgy topics like does truth matter, isn’t it all relative, and can we have morals without God? The latest edgy assertion comes from bioethicist Joel Marks, a scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, who has recently swung around to the view that there is no difference between right and wrong.

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Harvard morality expert resigns

Michael Cook | 23 July 2011 | Comments

tags: Harvard, Marc Hauser, morality, neuroscience

Harvard neuroscientist Marc D. Hauser, a popular teacher and writer, will resign on August 1. Nearly a year ago an internal investigation found him guilty of eight instances of scientific misconduct and in April the psychology department voted not to allow him to teach when classes begin in the fall.

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Harvard morality researcher waits for judgement

Michael Cook | 28 October 2010 | Comments

tags: Harvard, Marc Hauser, morality, research fraud

Do the errors have an innocent explanation?

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New Scientist proposes a new paradigm: scientists should define morality

Michael Cook | 23 October 2010 | Comments

tags: morality, new science of morality, Peter Singer

Peter Singer and Sam Harris on the new science of morality

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Too soon to discard religion, says primatologist

Michael Cook | 23 October 2010 | Comments

tags: morality, new science of morality

Frans de Waal sceptical of how good a job science will do

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Harvard admits research misconduct by morality expert

Michael Cook | 21 August 2010 | Comments

tags: evolutionary psychology, Marc Hauser, morality, research misconduct

Marc D. Hauser admits errors

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Will the new science of morality make us more moral? Perhaps not.

Michael Cook | 14 August 2010 | Comments

tags: bioethics, evolutionary psychology, Marc Hauser, morality, neuroscience

Marc D. Hauser allegedly involved in academic misconduct

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The new morality of neuroscience

Michael Cook | 31 July 2010 | Comments

tags: Marc Hauser, morality, neuroscience

David Brooks is fascinated by a scientific explanation of good and bad

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Neuroscience cracks the morality code

Michael Cook | 24 September 2008 | Comments

tags: Marc Hauser, morality, neuroscience

Harvard experts show Newsweek readers that morality is all in your head

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Disgusting!

Michael Cook | 20 June 2007 | Comments

tags: disgust, Marc Hauser, morality, neuroscience

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Morality is all in the brain, say researchers

Michael Cook | 16 May 2007 | Comments

tags: Marc Hauser, morality, neuroscience