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Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong is a 2006 book by former Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser in which he develops an empirically grounded theory to explain morality as a universal grammar. He draws evidence from evolutionary biology, moral and political philosophy, primatology, linguistics, and anthropology.
Marc Hauser sitting between Jon Meacham (far left) and Daniel Dennett (center), World Science Festival. Marc D. Hauser (born October 25, 1959) is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior, animal cognition and human behavior and neuroscience. Hauser was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1998 to ...
Marc Hauser, Evolution of a Universal Moral Grammar, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3; Is morality innate? Brief video clip that examines whether infants have a sense or morality. This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated. Sam Harris: Can Science Help Determine what is Moral? Part 1, Part 2
Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues. Here, you will meet combat veterans struggling with the moral and ethical ambiguities of war.
In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins states that he agrees with Robert Hinde's Why Good is Good, Michael Shermer's The Science of Good and Evil, Robert Buckman's Can We Be Good Without God? and Marc Hauser's Moral Minds, that our sense of right and wrong can be derived from our Darwinian past.
So the question of why we ought to do what is right (i.e., what we ought to do) puzzled them. The proper questions of moral philosophy were of the content of such obligations. [2]: 27 Few, however, went so far as to assert that there was a "mistake" at the heart of so much prior moral philosophy.
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The question hinges on whether color is a product of the mind or an inherent property of objects. Whilst most philosophers will agree that color assignment corresponds to spectra of light frequencies , it is not at all clear whether the particular psychological phenomena of color are imposed on these visual signals by the mind, or whether such ...