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Moral Philosophy

Modern Moral Reasoning: Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt gave a talk sponsored by Edge.org on moral psychology. I have mixed feelings about Edge. The organization seems like it collects all of my natural enemies in one place, because it is the altar of scientism. But, they do sometimes produce really interesting ideas. Haidt thinks the

Modern Moral Reasoning

A whole series of things I read recently got me thinking of the subject of moral reasoning. Moral philosophy is not a course I have yet taken in my M.A. studies, but I am already solidly in the broadly Aristotelian tradition of virtue ethics that constitutes one of the

Intelligence and Conscientiousness

Another interesting editorial from Bruce Charlton, Reliable but dumb or smart but slapdash? Comparing and contrasting g and C as measurable, inheritable traits. Both intelligence and conscientiousness are associated with more success in life, generally considered, and are independent of one another in the statistical sense. Charlton has an interesting