Joy Wattawa oversees outreach efforts for the Arete Initiative, developing communication/outreach strategies and publicizing the scientific work of projects associated with Arete.
Wattawa is the Assistant Director of Interdisciplinary Outreach at the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. After earning her B.A. in biochemistry from Reed College, Wattawa received a Fulbright Scholarship to study biophysics in France, and she recently completed an M.A. in Social Sciences, focusing on History of Science, at the University of Chicago.
The Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol. 5(2), pgs. 139 - 153, 2010.
by Blaine J. Fowers, Christine O. Mollica, Erin N. Procacci This study investigated an Aristotelian model of eudaimonic and hedonic well-being that distinguishes between goal orientations in which the means and ends are separable (instrumental) and in...
Social Neuroscience, Vol. 5, No. 1, pgs. 1-18.
by Anna Abraham, Hannes Rakoczy, Markus Werning, D. Yves von Cramon, Ricarda I. Schubotz With the aim of understanding how different mental or intentional states are processed in the brain, the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study...
Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 13, pg. 406–408.
by François Grenier and Andreas Lüthi " A study in this issue reports that mice can be fear conditioned through observation of other mice receiving aversive stimuli and identifies some of the brain regions involved in this observational fear learning...
Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol. 5, pg. 62 – 72, 2010.
by Cynthia L. S. Pury and Autumn D. Hensel When asked to describe a courageous action they have taken personally, people overwhelmingly describe an action with a successful outcome (Pury, Kowalski, & Spearman, 2007). Study 1 replicated these findings...
Tomasello, Michael. Why We Cooperate. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009.
"Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello...
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
by Defining Wisdom Project grantee Dr. Ryan Hanley "Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's...
Volume 20, Number 2, April 2009
Jean Bethke Elshtain, project council member and co-PI of the Science of Virtues project. "The article analyzes the relationship between democracy and religion. It is argued that theories about the inevitable advancement of secularization in connection...
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; Winter2009, Vol. 32 Issue 1, 6-16
The article discusses the highlights of the Twenty-Seventh Annual National Federalist Society Student Symposium held at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor in 2009. Among the topics tackled were judicial review, local values and pluralism...
Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p265-287
Lanzoni, Susan "The article discusses the account of emotion which highlights the bodily and physiological constitution of various feeling-states. It highlights the role of sympathy, which was most often understood to be a kind of tenderheartedness...
The Journal of Ethics,
Christian Miller I first summarize the central issues in the debate about the empirical adequacy of virtue ethics, and then examine the role that social psychologists claim positive and negative mood have in influencing compassionate helping behavior...
Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 40, Issue 1, pgs 70-80
Georgiana Kirkham In this article I examine similarities between the science and ethics of biotechnology on the one hand, and those of alchemy on the other, and show that the understanding of nature and naturalness upon which many contemporary ethical...
Ethics 119 (January 2009): 257–309
"If you open any textbook on metaethics, one of the first things that you are likely to see is a flowchart. 1 The advertised purpose of this flowchart is to ascertain, by means of your answers to three or four binary questions, where you lie in the...
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, Volume 35, Issue 3, pgs 153-158
Abstract: The article examines the new discourse on medical professionalism and responsibility through the prism of conflicts among moral values, especially with regard to truth-telling. The discussion is anchored in the renaissance of English-language...
Ashgate Epistemology and Mind Series: Volume 13, Issue 8
by Georg Brun, Ulvi Doguoglu & Dominique Kuenzle (Editors) Epistemology and Emotions is a recent addition to Ashgate's Epistemology and Mind series which focuses on contemporary international research at the intersection of metaphysics, epistemology...
Acad Emerg Med. 2009 Jan;16(1):51-5
Larkin GL , Iserson K , Kassutto Z , Freas G , Delaney K , Krimm J , Schmidt T , Simon J , Calkins A , Adams J Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Ethics Committee, Lansing, MI, USA. gluke.larkin@yale.edu At a time in which the integrity of the medical...
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2008 Dec;8(4):390-401
Tobler PN , Kalis A , Kalenscher T . University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. pnt21@cam.ac.uk What decisions should we make? Moral values, rules, and virtues provide standards for morally acceptable decisions, without prescribing how we should reach...
Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2008;16(6):373-80
Radden J , Sadler JZ The character-focused approach known as virtue ethics is especially well suited to understanding and promoting ethical psychiatric practice. Virtues are stable dispositions and responses attributed to character, and a virtue-based...
Lawrence E. Schmidt and Scott Marratto McGill-Queen's University Press
"Lawrence Schmidt and Scott Marratto challenge modern liberal ethics, arguing that there is no consistent ethical framework to deal with the long-range negative consequences of certain technological developments They examine established ethical approaches...
Oxford University Press US
"Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols...
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 3
by Luke Robinson "What are moral principles? The assumption underlying much of the generalism/ particularism debate in ethics is that they are (or would be) moral laws: generalizations or some special class thereof, such as explanatory or counterfactual...
Edward Elgar Pub, 2008
"Corporate Governance and Ethics is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle's Politics for today's corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
by Phil Hutchinson "In an important contribution to the burgeoning area of philosophy of emotions, Phil Hutchinson engages with philosophers of emotion in both the analytic and continental traditions. Shame and Philosophy advances a framework for...
Ontos, 2008
by Eckhart Arnold "Employing computer simulations for the study of the evolution of altruism has been popular since Axelrod's book „The Evolution of Cooperation“. But have the myriads of simulation studies that followed in Axelrod's footsteps...
Wadsworth Publishing
by Virtues Council Member Linda Zagzebski "What is knowledge? Why do we want it? Is knowledge possible? How do we get it? What about other epistemic values like understanding and certainty? Why are so many epistemologists worried about luck? In ON...
Columbia University Press, 2007.
"Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow tobring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmentalvirtue ethics...