A century and a half ago, an abolitionist preacher named Theodore Parker noticed something striking about the moral universe: “The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways,” he said, but ...

IT is a little curious that there is not a single science in which man is constitutionally, and therefore directly interested, to which Emanuel Kant has not, in one way or another, written a Prol ...

People who are primed with "moral realism" may be motivated to better moral behavior. Researchers assess the impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making in a new report. Getting people to think ...

Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior.

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. The social implications of this question are enormous. We live in a time rife ...

The quest to detach morality from divine revelation has only led to one dead end after another. Can science tell us how we ought to behave? In Science and the Good, a book that crosses the boundaries ...

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People living in different countries and societies worldwide can have very different views on what behaviors are acceptable. In the field of sociology, these population-level judgments are broadly ...

We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans – and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios WHAT an enticing title: Morality for ...

Public opinion towards science has made headlines over the past several years for a variety of reasons — mostly negative. High profile cases of academic dishonesty and disputes over funding have left ...

What do you think was riskier during the pre-vaccine days of the pandemic: having your lonely parents over for dinner or going to a beach filled with dozens of strangers? Or how about going to the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Do you strongly agree with the following ...