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Oct 16 2012
Education Brings Equality, and More Wisdom from the Dalai Lama
Jun 08 2012
The Amygdala Made Me Do It
Jun 08 2012
Unraveling Virtues
Jun 08 2012
This is Your Brain on No Self Control
May 04 2012
Why Won't They Listen?
May 04 2012
Notes on Virtue
Apr 09 2012
Choosing the Good: An Interactive Museum Experience
Apr 09 2012
Laurie Santos and the Hard Science of Monkey Business
Mar 06 2012
Virtuous Behaviors Sanction Later Sins
Feb 17 2012
Why We Have Moral Rules, But Don't Follow Them
Feb 06 2012
The Yuck Factor Explained
Feb 06 2012
Jailbreak Rat: Selfless Rodents Spring Their Pals and Share Their Sweets
Jan 06 2012
The Future of Moral Machines
Jan 06 2012
Human Nature’s Pathologist
Dec 09 2011
Program for Youth Mentoring Through Literature Gains County Support
Dec 09 2011
Moral Dilemma: Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?
Nov 14 2011
The Moral Foundations of Occupy Wall Street
Nov 14 2011
Moral Choice or Tug of War?
Oct 11 2011
The Ick Factor of Moral Revulsion
Oct 10 2011
The Upside of a Red Face
Sep 12 2011
Virtuous Empathy: Scientific and Humanistic Investigations
Sep 12 2011
The Will in the World
Sep 12 2011
Morality Play
Aug 05 2011
The Maze of Moral Relativism
Aug 05 2011
The Ethics of Stealing Cable
Jul 08 2011
Stuck With Virtue Conference Announcement
Jul 07 2011
Five Best: Novel Approaches to Kindness
Jul 07 2011
Patricia Churchland and Her New Book, Braintrust
Jun 10 2011
Why Free Will May be an Illusion
Jun 10 2011
Nice Guys Finish First
May 09 2011
Control Yourself!
May 09 2011
Stumbling Into Bad Behavior
Apr 07 2011
Can Babies Teach Us About Morality?
Apr 07 2011
The Evolution of Prejudice
Mar 15 2011
The Modesty Manifesto
Mar 15 2011
More Reasons to Be Nice: It's Less Work For Everyone
Feb 08 2011
What is a Good Life?
Feb 08 2011
The Social Animal
Jan 07 2011
Searching for the Source of a Fountain of Courage
Jan 07 2011
Saying Yes to Saying No
Dec 13 2010
An Unconventional History of Human Rights
Dec 13 2010
Morality: Created By Evolution or Religion?
Nov 15 2010
Morality: Beyond Intuition
Nov 15 2010
The Art of Social Change
Oct 15 2010
What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For?
Oct 15 2010
The Science of Good and Evil
Sep 15 2010
Experiments in Philosophy
Sep 15 2010
Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours
Jul 08 2010
Science and/or Faith
Jul 01 2010
Wanted: Leaders Who Tell the Truth?
Jun 09 2010
Julian Baggini: There Is No One Either Good or Bad, But Circumstances Make Them So
Jun 08 2010
Mein Data, Did Any Useful Science Come Out of the Nazi Concentration Camps?
Jun 08 2010
If Neuroimaging Can Reliably Discern Truth From Falsehood, Should Brain Scans Be Admissible Evidence in Court Cases?
Jun 08 2010
Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations
Jun 08 2010
Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement: Developing an Argument from Nietzsche
Jun 08 2010
The Future of the Past, Cleansing Our Minds of Crime and Vice
Jun 08 2010
A Crack in the Stoic’s Armor
Jun 01 2010
And Man Made Life: Artificial Life, the Stuff of Dreams and Nightmares, Has Arrived
May 25 2010
Food Fight: An Oxford-style Debate on Sustainable Farming
May 17 2010
Gay Is Good
May 17 2010
Science And Morality: You Can’t Derive 'Ought' From 'Is'
May 17 2010
Brain Scans May Be Useful Lie Detectors, Say Experts
May 17 2010
Bad Charity? (All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!)
May 17 2010
Has a U.S. Pediatrics Group Condoned Genital Cutting?
May 11 2010
Payments Offered to Egg Donors Prompt Scrutiny
May 11 2010
Charting Creativity: Signposts of A Hazy Territory
May 11 2010
Physicists Study How Moral Behaviour Evolved
May 11 2010
Hand Washing Wipes Away Regrets?
May 06 2010
The Moral Life of Babies
May 06 2010
Why Holy Men Make Lousy Popes
May 06 2010
Goldman Sachs Is No Less Moral Than You
May 03 2010
Chimps 'Feel Death Like Humans'
Apr 29 2010
Science, Ethics And Choices
Apr 21 2010
Obama Picks Pragmatists for New Bioethics Panel
Apr 21 2010
Is Materialism a Turnoff?
Apr 21 2010
The Cost of Scientific Misconduct
Apr 21 2010
Being Morally Strong Makes You Physically Strong
Apr 21 2010
Review - Ethics, The Basics
Apr 21 2010
Science Can Answer Moral Questions
Apr 21 2010
Ought Implies Can, Ethical Pronouncements without Economics Lead to Diastrous Public Policies
Apr 21 2010
Literary Critics Scan the Brain to Find Out Why We Love to Read
Apr 19 2010
Ethics Classes Won't Save Us From Ourselves
Apr 19 2010
How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy
Apr 14 2010
Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?
Apr 01 2010
Should Google Take Ethics Lessons from the Media?
Apr 01 2010
Economic Desperation, Reshaping Morality
Apr 01 2010
Religion and the Science of Virtue
Apr 01 2010
Sarah Palin to Publish Book on 'American virtues'
Mar 31 2010
Why Hungary is Wrong to Criminalize Holocaust Denial
Mar 16 2010
Cachet of the Cutthroat
Mar 16 2010
A New Science of Virtues Grant Recipients Announced
Mar 09 2010
Facebook and Bebo risk 'infantilising' the human mind
Mar 03 2010
When American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide
Mar 03 2010
The Three Virtues We Need
Mar 03 2010
Government should nurture virtue
Mar 03 2010
The virtue of vagueness
Mar 03 2010
Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?
Mar 03 2010
Review - Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present
Feb 18 2010
Can Battlefield Robots Take the Place of Soldiers?
Feb 18 2010
A TV Confession Reignites Britain's Euthanasia Debate
Feb 17 2010
A virtuous Olympics? Organizers Say They've Tried
Feb 12 2010
Can a Brain Scan Predict a Broken Promise?
Feb 11 2010
Why Watching Oprah Makes you a Better Person
Feb 11 2010
Why it’s wrong to preach “climate justice”
Feb 11 2010
Resources and Problems in Whitehead's Metaphysics
Jan 21 2010
Forgiveness triumphs over evil
Jan 21 2010
But Enough About Me
Jan 21 2010
Compassion: A Shared Value and A Common Project
Jan 15 2010
Powerhouses
Jan 15 2010
Trust in the Twitterverse
Jan 15 2010
[Interview] The Eternal Moment
Jan 14 2010
The Virtue Behind the Science
Jan 14 2010
Can Video Games Save the World?
Jan 11 2010
An Interview with Bonnie Honig
Jan 07 2010
The thick of it
Jan 07 2010
On Restoring the Primacy of Politics to Ethics
Dec 01 2009
The Culture of Being Rude
Dec 01 2009
Do parents' white lies hurt children?
Dec 01 2009
How Will Religion Evolve?
Dec 01 2009
Therapy 32 Times More Cost Effective At Increasing Happiness Than Money
Dec 01 2009
Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
Dec 01 2009
God, the Government and Feelings of Control
Dec 01 2009
Facial Profiling
Dec 01 2009
Shifting Blame Is Socially Contagious
Nov 25 2009
Heart attack risk 'raised by suppressing anger'
Nov 25 2009
Socially Awkward? Check Your Genes
Nov 25 2009
The Will to Power--Is "Free Will" All in Your Head?
Nov 24 2009
The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness
Nov 03 2009
The evolution of compassion
Nov 02 2009
Robots That Care
Nov 02 2009
I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain
Nov 02 2009
Jason Matheny on the world’s addiction to meat and how to grow ground beef in a test tube.
Oct 09 2009
The Science of Trust: Economics and Virtue
Sep 23 2009
The Web as random acts of kindness
Sep 22 2009
Better world: Be nice to people
Sep 09 2009
On the Origin of Cooperation
Aug 31 2009
Fertile Old Ladies
Aug 31 2009
Is That Behavior Ethical? The Powerful Have a Different Perspective
Aug 26 2009
The Origin of Hatred
Aug 26 2009
What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality
Aug 26 2009
Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share
Aug 19 2009
Truth or Lies
Aug 12 2009
An Intellectual Movement for the Masses
Jul 28 2009
The Biological Basis Of Morality
Jul 21 2009
The Altruism in Economics
Jul 17 2009
Why We Must Ration Health Care
Jul 14 2009
Moral Principles Are Not Moral Laws
Jul 09 2009
A New Science of Virtues Grant Competition Finalists Announced
Jun 12 2009
Wisdom Versus a High Speed Connection
Jun 11 2009
Animals can tell right from wrong
May 18 2009
A Crisis of Character
May 13 2009
Moral vs moral
May 13 2009
The Moral Debate About Torture
Apr 09 2009
Videos from ASU's "Origins Symposium"
Apr 09 2009
The End of Philosophy
Mar 23 2009
Iris Murdoch on Virtue
Mar 19 2009
How Do Morals Translate Offline to Online?
Mar 17 2009
Review of "Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals About Morality"
Mar 17 2009
Review of "The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment"
Mar 17 2009
Clean and Virtuous: When Physical Purity Becomes Moral Purity
Mar 16 2009
The Humanities' Value
Mar 13 2009
American Public Media's "Repossessing Virtue" Project
Mar 05 2009
Audio from the recent conference "Making Men Moral"
Mar 05 2009
California fertility doctors offer of trait selection stirs ethical questions
Mar 05 2009
We are a better people
Mar 03 2009
Moral Exceptionalism
Feb 28 2009
How Torah Revolutionized Political Theory
Feb 28 2009
Review - Radical Virtues Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life
Feb 13 2009
I feel your pain, even though I can't feel mine
Feb 13 2009
Reading British literature encourages virtue
Feb 13 2009
Clark Power emphasizes virtue in education
Feb 13 2009
Essay Contest Asks Scholars to Examine Virtue, Freedom, and Civil Society
Feb 13 2009
John Cacioppo's New Blog in Psychology Today
Jan 21 2009
Conference: Making Men Moral
Jan 13 2009
Steven Pinker writes on "The Moral Instinct" in NYT
Dec 19 2008
Moral thinking: Biology invades a field philosophers thought was safely theirs
Dec 19 2008
Belief in God Essential for Moral Virtue?
Dec 17 2008
VIA Institute on Character Offers a Survey of Character
Dec 16 2008
Scholars will use two-fold definition of science to better understand human virtue
Dec 16 2008
A New Science of Virtues Grant Competition