Especially in the twenty-first century, where we live in a world of computers, cell phones, automobiles, electricity, advanced medicine, and all of the wonders of modern society, it is very easy to ...

Harvard brain scientist Joshua Buckholtz has never forgotten a convict he met back when he was an undergrad conducting psychological tests in prisons. The man had beaten another man nearly to death ...

Dr. Molly Crockett is a neuroscientist known for her research on human morality, altruism and decision making. Formerly an associate professor at the University of Oxford, Crockett joined the Yale ...

The Catholic Church has rigorous language explaining what is right and what is wrong, but last week, Pope Francis urged people to look inward at their consciences while navigating moral dilemmas.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Marshall M. Weinberg Symposium — hosted Thursday and Friday in the Michigan League — focused ...

When it comes to teaching science, the quest for breakthrough research seems to be an ever-present goal. But with advances in biotech, ethics issues are unavoidable and must be brought up in the ...

In an interesting piece about the independence of morality and religion, my fellow Psychology Today blogger Gad Saad rightly reports that many religious people believe that morality is an example of ...

“The absence of certainty is not an excuse to do nothing,” Christine Todd Whitman, President George W. Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, once cautioned. For decades, we have ...

In last night’s debate, when Joe Biden said “we don’t trust” President Trump on a coronavirus vaccine, but “we trust the scientists, we trust Dr. Fauci,” he wasn’t just talking about the politics of a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I am a faithful book buyer and an omnivorous ...

The engaging article by Tom Bartlett, “Dusting Off God” (The Chronicle Review, August 17), nicely summarizes the age-old conundrum of whether religious belief is due to divine inspiration, an ...