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A very bad wizard : morality behind the curtain / [interviews] by Tamler Sommers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sommers, Tamler, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Psychology and philosophy.
- Philosophers--Interviews.
- Philosophers.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, CA] : Believer Books, [2009]
- Summary:
- Do we have tree will?
- What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon?
- Does evolutionary theory make ethics a shain?
- Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore?
- These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in his interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology.
- Philip Zinbardo discusses his famous Stanford Prison Experiment, why he had to stop the study after only six day and how what happened sheds light on the abuses of Abu Ghraib Harvard neuroscientist Joshua Greene and Liane Young use MRL machines to investigate the neuroscience behind moral Jonathan Haidt tells us why we think sleeping with, our siblings is a wrong and how this relates to die clash between liberals and conservatives Renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explains what his research on chimpanzees and bonobos can tell us about love and war. And much more.
- A Very Bad Wizard essential reading for anyone curious about the origins and inner workings of our moral lives.
- Contents:
- Part 1 How free are we? 7
- You cannot make yourself the way you are. / Galen Strawson 9
- The power of the situation. / Philip Zimbardo 29
- Part 2 Where did morality come from? What is it? Wliere is it going? 61
- Lessons from our primate relatives. / Franz deWaal 63
- The illusion of objectivity in ethics. / Michael Ruse 85
- Relative justice / Joseph Henrich 103
- Trolley problems / Joshua Greene, Liane Young 131
- Part 3 Bad wizard, good man: Dispelling the illusions of morality 151
- Comfortably dumbfounded / Jonathan Haidt 153
- "I walk the line." / Stephen Stich 173
- Codes of honor / William Ian Miller 207
- Selected Reading 235.
- ISBN:
- 9781934781388
- 193478138X
- OCLC:
- 308208708
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