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The results reinforced the findings of Phillips’s earlier study: social diversity leads people to take dissenting opinions more seriously.
Alex Edmans • May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish biased and illogical people become when they disagree with you but if you think about moral reasoning is a skill we humans evolved to further our social agendas to justify her actions and defend the teams we belong to then thi
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Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Sam Harriss • Making Sense | Sam Harris
If, unlike Socrates, you think you already know the answers to untimely questions, then you need to explain why you yourself sometimes fail to act on them. How does the Utilitarian explain not donating more to charity? How does the Kantian explain her little white lies? The answer is that neither believes that knowing what you should do suffices fo
... See moreAgnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
The great worry, of course, is that an honest discussion of the underlying causes of human behavior appears to leave no room for moral responsibility.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Bounded ethicality is the psychology of “good-ish” people. Good-ish people are sometimes good and sometimes not, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not, like all of us. This model of bounded ethicality challenges ways of thinking and talking in which you are either a good person or not, a racist or not, an unethical human or not. We argue that t
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Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
These subjects were reasoning. They were working quite hard at reasoning. But it was not reasoning in search of truth; it was reasoning in support of their emotional reactions. It was reasoning as described by the philosopher David Hume, who wrote in 1739 that “reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any
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