The title of this extraordinarily diverse and thought-provoking collection of essays does not
do it justice. The beautifully written and carefully argued papers assembled in The science of …

Wrong by Marc D. Hauser-belong to a seasoned tradition that attempts to reconcile these
seemingly divergent forms of thinking. These books focus, in particular, on the emerging …

The debate over the existence of free will, responsibility, and their kin rages. Some opine,
marshaling arguments from modern neurobiology, that such phenomena are nothing more …

The field of bioethics has generated a huge literature in the past 2 decades. It is rare that a
volume presents a really new perspective on the subject, but Jonathan Moreno's Deciding …

Knowing how the human brain" makes" moral judgments is not sufficient to understand the
origins of moral rules and to analyze the foundations used by different cultural traditions to …

BOOK REVIEWS complex, interwoven mélange that moral functioning is”(21, original
emphasis). His central claim is that “attempts to augment moral functioning by biological …

THE study of morality, once the proprietary domain of philosophers, is increasingly an
interdisciplinary endeavor spanning the cognitive, social, and biological sciences. While …

A singular and distinctive advantage of traditional Thomistic morality is its marvelous realism
and flexibility, a realism and flexibility particularly valuable in the context of the modern …

In this chapter I propose to discuss in a very general and, no doubt, superficial way an
ancient and fundamental question in moral philosophy and then indicate how it is relevant to …

This book by a distinguished American psychologist is the “third in a trilogy that applies
evolutionary principles to understand the nature of human morality”(page vii). This reviewer …