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Ann Druyan And Carl Sagan On The Empathic Ethical Behavior Of Humans Vs. Macaque Monkeys

July 8, 2010 – 10:45 am

Really fascinating bit of radio audio discussing a variation of the Milgram experiment performed on macaque monkeys, comparing its results to when the actual Milgram experiment was first done on humans: Thanks to Amanda for the great find. Your Thoughts?

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By Daniel Fincke | Posted in Ethics, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Social Sciences | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

On Failing To Grasp How Competition Can Be Cooperative And How Cooperation Can Be Counter-Productive

September 23, 2009 – 7:54 pm

Robin Hanson responds to work such as Frans de Waal’s which emphasizes the invaluable role that empathy and cooperation played in natural selection of humans by stressing that as good as cooperation might be, we are prone to making serious errors about what genuinely helpful cooperation entails in specific instances: The unstated moral behind most [...]

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By Daniel Fincke | Posted in Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociobiology | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

What Makes Humans Unique?

July 20, 2009 – 5:32 pm

This is a fascinating, illuminating, and myth-debunking lecture from neurologist Robert Sapolsky.  He goes through a number of features of our nature, shows how they are shared with other animals and how we take these features to another level.  And in the end it’s paradoxical and inspirational. It’s long but worth the time. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCVu25wQ5s&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01] Thanks [...]

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On Equity: Plato, Aristotle, and Sotomayor

July 2, 2009 – 7:50 pm

Some day down the road, I hope to sift all my thoughts on empathy and “wise Latinas judges” in light of Nietzsche’s wealth of insights into perspectival knowledge as a more virile knowledge than the emasculation that comes through objectivity.  (Genealogy of Morals III:12)  But to hold us over in the meantime, here is Joseph [...]

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