Mind and Morals

Moral psychology after Darwin.
by Scott M. James, Ph.D.

The Merry Moral Prankster

For several years now, students in my Introduction to Ethics class have been unwitting participants in a moral experiment. After some six years the results are in. But I do not know how to interpret the results. Read More

Mind-Reading, Morality, and the Case of the Missing Chocolate

Mind-reading is not magic. It can separate moral beings from moral deviants. Read More

Napoleon Pills and the Rationality of Belief

We think our beliefs extend back to the facts. This is what makes them rational. But if contemporary social psychology has revealed anything, it's that very many of our beliefs (let alone our desires) have very different origins. And this makes a difference in what you ought to believe. Read More

Living by the Bronze Rule

How much would you pay to have someone killed? Read More

The Moral Instinct

Some moral psychologists are now maintaining that children exhibit a moral competence that outstrips the limited (and confusing) moral input from their environment. Read More

Your Brain on Justice

Here's a thought experiment every freshman Ethics student confronts. Read More

Scott M. James

Scott M. James is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina.

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