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February 12, 2025

The New Age of Eugenics and Darwin’s Warning Against It

When societies embrace eugenic thinking, they betray the moral progress that Darwin believed in.

September 12, 2024

Fiction and the Fourth Sexual Revolution

Literature and other forms of fiction are integral when human communities scrutinize their mating regime and negotiate new practices, such as with the West’s three sexual revolutions of 1200, 1750, and 1968.

June 22, 2023

Spirituality, Science, and Action: A Conversation Between David Sloan Wilson and Brother Phap Linh

Spirituality often seems like the opposite of action, but some of the most committed forms of activism come from spiritual leaders.

June 11, 2012

Evolution and Morality I: Simon Blackburn

What is the fundamental nature of human morality? Will knowing this help improve our societies?

April 20, 2012

Frans de Waal on the Evolution of Morality

Primatologist Organizes Conference in Sicily on June 17-22

July 1, 2012

Morality: What is it Good For?

How evolution sculpts moral systems.

July 6, 2012

Bully Psychology: Where Evolution And Morality Collide

In the most basic terms, bullying is about dominating and we come from ancestors who were big into the dominance hierarchy.

January 13, 2013

Morality and Violence in Animals and Humans

The application of human standards of morality to animal behavior.

January 22, 2014

Profiles in Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Richard Joyce

What he believes evolutionary biology offers moral philosophy.

October 29, 2013

Profiles In Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Jonathan Haidt

What novel insights can evolutionary approaches provide about human morality? What novel insights can evolutionary approaches provide about human morality? Jonathan Haidt describes his work and inspirations for understanding six universal moral foundations and the ecstasy of self-transcendence (transpersonal identification) common in religious and spiritual experiences.

February 4, 2014

Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind

Jonathan Haidt analyzes the shortcomings of human reasoning and bets $10,000 that Harris will not be swayed by reason alone.The New Atheist Sam Harris recently offered to pay $10,000 to anyone who can disprove his arguments about morality. Jonathan Haidt analyzes the nature of reasoning, and the ease with which reason becomes a servant of the passions. He bets $10,000 that Harris will not change his mind.

January 7, 2014

The Evolution of Fairness

January 15, 2014

Profiles In Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Michael McCullough

February 11, 2014

Four essays On Why Sam Harris Is Wrong About Morality

February 20, 2014

Profiles in Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Oliver Scott Curry

Why nothing about morality makes sense except in the light of evolution.

March 30, 2013

Primatologist Frans de Waal Responds To His New Atheist Critics

Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives.Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives

February 11, 2014

Mainstream science of morality contradicts Sam Harris’ central claim