Experimental Philosophy: Moral Judgments and Happiness part 2
If we think that somebody is living a bad life---perhaps by being a morally bad person---then we might not attribute happiness to her even if we believe that she likes and wants to contin...
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http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2008/05/moral-judgments.html
If we think that somebody is living a bad life---perhaps by being a morally bad person---then we might not attribute happiness to her even if we believe that she likes and wants to contin...
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http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2008/05/moral-judgments.html
Deric Bownds' MindBlog: Fairness activates brain reward circuitry.
This work provides evidence that fairness is hedonically valued and that tolerating unfair treatment for material gain involves a pattern of activation resembling suppression of negative ...
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http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/04/fairness-activates-brain-reward.html
This work provides evidence that fairness is hedonically valued and that tolerating unfair treatment for material gain involves a pattern of activation resembling suppression of negative ...
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http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2008/04/fairness-activates-brain-reward.html
Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior - New York Times
Human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
What Makes Us Moral - TIME
For grossly imperfect creatures like us, morality may be the steepest of all developmental mountains. Our opposable thumbs and big brains gave us the tools to dominate the planet, but wis...
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1686441,00.html
For grossly imperfect creatures like us, morality may be the steepest of all developmental mountains. Our opposable thumbs and big brains gave us the tools to dominate the planet, but wis...
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1686441,00.html
Monkeys "Go on Strike" When They Sense Unfairness
In recent tests designed to assess monkeys' sense of fairness, a group of brown capuchin monkeys "went on strike" and refused to perform routine tasks when they saw others receiving great...
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-monkeys.html
In recent tests designed to assess monkeys' sense of fairness, a group of brown capuchin monkeys "went on strike" and refused to perform routine tasks when they saw others receiving great...
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-monkeys.html
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics
A large proportion of our most commonplace thoughts make use of an extensive, but unconscious, system of metaphorical concepts, that is, concepts from a typically concrete realm of though...
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http://www.wwcd.org/issues/Lakoff.html
A large proportion of our most commonplace thoughts make use of an extensive, but unconscious, system of metaphorical concepts, that is, concepts from a typically concrete realm of though...
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Disguising Environmental Harm Eases Only Our Conscience
Convoluted language helps disguise what is being done and reduces accountability, and also ignores and disputes harmful effects. Learning about moral disengagement shines the light not on...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204091902.htm
Convoluted language helps disguise what is being done and reduces accountability, and also ignores and disputes harmful effects. Learning about moral disengagement shines the light not on...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204091902.htm
The Moral Instinct - New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html
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Techdirt: The Economics Of Free Isn't Good Or Bad -- It's Simply What Happens
Economics is just an explanation of the forces at work on a market. Asking if economics is good or bad is like asking if physics is good or bad.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080226/200633366.shtml
Economics is just an explanation of the forces at work on a market. Asking if economics is good or bad is like asking if physics is good or bad.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080226/200633366.shtml
The Science Is Clear: Marriage Should Be Eradicated « Meditations on Meaning
ccording to the Australian and Canadian surveys, marriage is most often a commitment to love and fidelity, to predefined moral values, to family, to tradition, and to enhancing power, wea...
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http://avanoo.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/the-science-is-clear-marriage-should-be-eradicated
ccording to the Australian and Canadian surveys, marriage is most often a commitment to love and fidelity, to predefined moral values, to family, to tradition, and to enhancing power, wea...
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Taking Play Seriously « Neuroanthropology
In sum, at a neurobiological level and at a behavioral level, play is about fun that provides a wealth of benefits.
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http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/taking-play-seriously
In sum, at a neurobiological level and at a behavioral level, play is about fun that provides a wealth of benefits.
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http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/taking-play-seriously
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Morality under threat as science debunks our sense of free will
If exposure to deterministic messages increases the likelihood of unethical actions", the researchers said, "then identifying approaches for insulating the public against this danger beco...
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/02/morality-under-threat-as-science.html
If exposure to deterministic messages increases the likelihood of unethical actions", the researchers said, "then identifying approaches for insulating the public against this danger beco...
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/02/morality-under-threat-as-science.html
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Moral Economy of Web 2.0 (Part One)
By 2007, contradictions, conflicts, and schisms have started to appear within the Web 2.0 paradigm around the imperfectly aligned interests of media producers and consumers.
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http://henryjenkins.org/2008/03/the_moral_economy_of_web_20_pa.html
By 2007, contradictions, conflicts, and schisms have started to appear within the Web 2.0 paradigm around the imperfectly aligned interests of media producers and consumers.
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http://henryjenkins.org/2008/03/the_moral_economy_of_web_20_pa.html
Deep Jive Interests » Fine, I’ll Say It: Shyftr Crosses The Line
In my mind, when a service cannot exist *without* republishing others content in its entirety, and directly profits from that republishing without the original consent of the author, ther...
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http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/04/12/fine-ill-say-it-shyftr-crosses-the-line
In my mind, when a service cannot exist *without* republishing others content in its entirety, and directly profits from that republishing without the original consent of the author, ther...
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Is Our Education System Working? : EcoWorldly
The problems we are faced with today are the results of unethical leadership. Our business and political leaders have had the best education, yet many would sacrifice human wellbeing end ...
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http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/12/is-our-education-system-working
The problems we are faced with today are the results of unethical leadership. Our business and political leaders have had the best education, yet many would sacrifice human wellbeing end ...
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http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/12/is-our-education-system-working
Civilization defined and explained in plain English
This theory supplies an explanation of civilization that repairs the omission of all previous works on the subject by defining civilization, so giving the subject a simplicity which is en...
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http://www.ourcivilisation.com
This theory supplies an explanation of civilization that repairs the omission of all previous works on the subject by defining civilization, so giving the subject a simplicity which is en...
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http://www.ourcivilisation.com
