Converging evidence from the behavioural and brain sciences suggests that the human
moral judgement system is not well equipped to identify climate change—a complex, large …

Experimental philosophy is a new interdisciplinary field that uses methods normally
associated with psychology to investigate questions normally associated with philosophy …

Theory of mind (ToM), or the ability to impute unobservable mental states to others, is central
to human social interactions, communication, empathy, self-consciousness, and morality …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

When something is wrong, someone is harmed. This hypothesis derives from the theory of
dyadic morality, which suggests a moral cognitive template of wrongdoing agent and …

Theories that reject the existence of altruism presume that emotional benefits serve as
ulterior motives for doing good deeds. These theories argue that even in the absence of …

Claims about people's intuitions have long played an important role in philosophical
debates. The new field of experimental philosophy seeks to subject such claims to rigorous …

This chapter focuses on moral flexibility, a term that the authors use that people are strongly
motivated to adhere to and affirm their moral beliefs in their judgments and choices, they …

It has often been suggested that people's ordinary capacities for understanding the world
make use of much the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A …

Felix Mendelssohn, the famous Romantic composer, sought to take the unique experiences
of each human life—distinctive sorrows and personal pleasures—and give them universal …