We now live in a different moral universe, and by no means a better one. Of course, inspired by Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and the early civil-rights movement, we have made considerable ...

The language of morality carries an old-fashioned ring. In this era when millions worship markets and technology and ...

Moral facts are more like facts about Mumbai Cricket. You know where they play and who is on the roster. But tomorrow those same players may be elsewhere, and new ones may have taken their place.

Can science help us tell right from wrong? Sam Harris certainly thinks so. Julian Baggini sits down with one of the 'four horsemen of atheism' to learn how facts can inform our ethics ...

Facts Infused With Morality. By The Daily Dish. July 25, 2010. Share. Save. Edge held a seminar on morality. Here's Joshua Knobe: Over the past few years, a series of recent experimental studies ...

In the end, we must deliberate on moral issues for ourselves, keeping a careful eye on both the facts and on the ethical considerations involved. This article updates several previous pieces from ...

A little while back, I picked up on the debate between Sam Harris and Sean Carroll on Science and Morality.This is a subject Ursula has also written about for us. Today Sean Carroll guest blogs ...

We’d been wrong to worry that morality lacked foundations. The facts on which moral judgments depend are not themselves up to us. We can’t choose not to be social animals.

Karl Marx is often understood to have dismissed morality as bourgeois ideology. But Vanessa Wills, author of the new book ...

Moral facts are more like facts about Mumbai Cricket. You know where they play and who is on the roster. But tomorrow those same players may be elsewhere, and new ones may have taken their place.