Welcome to the Science of Virtues Research Network
The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $3 million research program on a New Science of Virtues. This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences. We support highly original, scholarly projects that demonstrate promise of a distinctive contribution to virtue research and have the potential to begin a new field of interdisciplinary study.

RECENT NEWS
The Moral Life of Babies
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.
 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Admiration for Virtue: Neuroscientific Perspectives on A Motivating Emotion
Social emotions like admiration for another person’s virtue are often associated with a desire to be virtuous one’s self.
Science and/or Faith
Should a "scientific" meeting attempt to address questions of faith? If so, what's the best way to do it?
 
Morality or Moralism?
Several articles from the latest issue of Common Knowledge respond to Emile Hache and Bruno Latour's recent article on ethics for non-humans.
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Current Discussion
On Juvenile Justice