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…

- Joshua Greene

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…

- Joshua Greene

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

- Joshua Greene

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

- Joshua Greene

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…

- Joshua Greene

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

- Joshua Greene

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

- Joshua Greene