When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how close by are they? Under….

When you share your moral common sense with people in your locality, that helps you to form a community. But those gut reactions differ between group….

When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows individuals to form a group an….

We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness sounds ver….

Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate in ….

Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so….

Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most….