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Loading... Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrongby Marc Hauser
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Poorly written so far! Finding it difficult to follow the details of Hauser's argument, if there are any. ( ) Sadly, this very enjoyable read will forever be tainted by the finding that Hauser is guilty of scientific misconduct: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/harvard-dean-confirms-miscondu... This books' stated goal--to describe human's universal morality as Noam Chomsky described human's universal grammar--is ambitious. However, the author spends more time marveling at the potential consequences success than actually moving towards a robust/useful model of humans' moral faculty. Section three reads like a sequel to Hauser's "Wild Minds", describing and dissecting dozens of recent behavioral psychology expermients involving non-humans. Worthwhile for the lay person curious about evolutionary psychology. no reviews | add a review
Scholars have long argued that moral judgements arise from rational deliberations about what society determines is right and wrong. This has generated the idea that our moral psychology is founded on cultural experience. In the revolutionary MORAL MINDS, Marc Hauser challenges these concepts, showing that this view is illusory and arguing instead that humans have evolved a 'moral instinct', a universal feature of the human mind rather than one informed by gender, education or religion. Combining his own cutting-edge research with cognitive psychology, linguistics, evolutionary biology and economics, Hauser examines his groundbreaking theory in terms of bioethics, religion and law, as well as our everyday lives. No library descriptions found. |
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