Everyday Ethics

A currently popular trend in moral psychology is the attempt to incorporate empirical findings about moral decision making with our efforts to construct solid moral theory. This makes some sense. If we are going to try and give people a theoretical basis for making moral decisions, we should probably know something about how [...]

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Morality is a diverse and challenging subject, and it is ripe with interesting philosophical questions.  We can question what sorts of moral principles we ought to adopt, or examine the challenges associated with particular moral questions.  But one question that we don’t often ask, is what purpose morality fulfills.  In other words, what is morality [...]

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