The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics In his new book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are ...

Moral rules are rigid. The 10 Commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament, for example, include unambiguous prohibitions, such as, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, Kant’s categorical imperative is ...

Agnieszka Jaroslawska receives funding from the ESRC. People are often forgiven for actions that they would never get permission for in the first place – a phenomenon described as “Stuart’s Law of ...

We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments—here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of others—are preferentially supported by ...

Recent research on morality (e.g., studying moral reasoning with trolley dilemma, footbridge dilemma, or the issues of intention vs. outcome) or on its neurological bases has added new literature in ...

Imagine a CEO wants to profit from a venture that, by the way, involves emitting pollution toxic to the environment, but she doesn’t care because the goal is profit. Is the CEO intentionally harming ...

Heather Gridley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...