I just received a copy of a new book edited by Emory University professor Dr. Jonathan Crane called Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents (the Kindle edition can be found here). I have an essay ...

Every parent’s primary goal is to raise a decent human, but didactic speeches about right and wrong aren’t exactly in the cards when you’re dealing with a kid who can’t tear himself away from his ...

Many people feel morality is in decline and that their political opposition is more evil than ever. Kurt Gray's "Outraged" explains the roots of our discontent.

Scholastic arguments, sacred texts and disciplined reasoning meet in books that reveal how medieval thinkers shaped belief, ...

BOOK PICK: ‘Jane Austen: Writings, Politics, Society’ delves into the cultural milieu in which the novelist lived and the world in which her books take place. What influenced the time-honored author ...

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (312 pp.)—Werner Bergengruen—Thames & Hudson ($3). The evil that the people of Cassano did one Renaissance summer may not have lived after them, but it certainly mushroomed ...

Yale developmental psychologist Paul Bloom has written several books about pleasure, morality and infant psychology. His most recent, “Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil,” discusses his new ...

Patricia S. Churchland, the philosopher and neuroscientist, is sitting at a cafe on the Upper West Side, explaining the vacuousness, as she sees it, of a vast swath of contemporary moral philosophy.

To call Sam Harris a divisive figure is to put it mildly. Harris — along with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens — is considered one of the most influential members of the ...

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Trolley Problem. It’s a dilemma used to study moral thinking, and it goes something like this: If you see an out of control trolley bearing down on five innocent people, ...

Sometime in the early 1970s I had an illuminating conversation with an expert on Soviet affairs. We ended up discussing Solzhenitsyn, and the expert expounded the view that the writer illustrated the ...