DAVID Brooks visited Seattle to give a brilliant keynote address at the Downtown Business Breakfast hosted by Seattle Pacific University, after which he gave another brilliant public lecture on campus ...

People who are primed with "moral realism" may be motivated to better moral behavior. Researchers assess the impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making in a new report. Getting people to think ...

The key value from which everything in Harris's argument supposedly follows is "well-being"; however, it's difficult to know just what is meant by this. In recent years, Sam Harris has become a ...

Explore Richard Carrier's insights on moral ontology and the nature of moral facts that shape moral philosophy. Discover more about moral realism. All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, ...

Many moral philosophers regard scientific research as irrelevant to their work because science deals with what is the case, whereas ethics deals with what ought to be. Some ethicists question this ...

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report ...