Catharsis
A new venue has opened up in Melbourne: a place you can go to break stuff. Like, really break it. Smash it. Crush it. With a baseball bat. The target of all this beating would be wineglasses,...
View ArticleAbsolutely.
1. Moral relativism is not cool. I learnt this the hard way: you shouldn’t hesitate when your friend asks “but killing babies is objectively wrong, right?” “Well...” In my defence, I was thinking about...
View ArticleMetaphors for Morality
Morality is like vision: you can just see when something is wrong. And when you see that something is wrong, it feels objective, it feels like you’re observing something true about the world. The apple...
View ArticleHarming Men
Sometimes I wish it was okay for a paper to have an introduction that goes "Here's a weird phenomenon. Let's see if we can pin it down in the lab!" If that had been possible, the recent paper Moral...
View ArticleAll’s Fair?
Jonathan Phillips and Fiery Cushman recently published a paper in PNAS: Morality constrains the default representation of what is possible. The title of Jonathan's accompanying Aeon article is somewhat...
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