Paul Katsafanas (BU): Philosophical Psychology as a Basis for Ethics. Travis Riddle on how your moral decisions are shaped by a bad mood: Weighty choices can be shifted by surprising factors. Continuing breakthroughs in neuroscience have given rise to shelves full of new books on the neurochemistry of right and wrong. Want to be a better person? Spend more time thinking about science. Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle interview Edward O. Wilson on the origin of morals. Frans de Waal's bottom-up morality: We're not good because of God. Ruy Teixeira on the good news about human nature: Most people aren’t jerks (and part 2). Infants as young as nine months old prefer individuals who are nice to people like them and mean to people who aren't like them (and more). Has morality become a skeuomorph? Doug Hill wonders. From Forbes, Joseph Grenny on how there's nothing like a financial crisis to bring out the best in people.
