If there exists one moral code that can be shared and agreed by almost all cultures and religions, then it must be the concept of "never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself." This ...

Seth Shulman, editorial director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, writes the syndicated monthly column “Got Science?” He is the author of six books including “The Telephone Gambit: Chasing ...

New research in Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, showing that intuition, rather than deliberate reasoning ...

Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...

Can science guide morality? For some decades, moral philosophers have turned a jaundiced eye toward “facts,” not allowing direct bearing on moral judgments. They point out that a fact should not ...

We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans – and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios WHAT an enticing title: Morality for Humans. In ...

It is generally accepted by both the left and the right that science itself is a morally neutral enterprise, since it merely creates the mechanisms of power that can be used for moral and immoral ...

Daily life is peppered with moral decisions. Some are so automatic that they fail to register—like holding the door for a mother struggling with a stroller, or resisting a passing urge to elbow the ...

If there exists one moral code that can be shared and agreed by almost all cultures and religions, then it must be the concept of “never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself”. This ...