Why Intentions Matter Less Than You Think
Experimental evidence reveals intentions are one factor in blame—not the foundation philosophy assumes.
The Moral Psychology of Punishment
Neuroscience and experimental philosophy expose the retributive machinery behind human punishment—and the justifications we fabricate to conceal it.
How Emotions Constitute Rather Than Contaminate Moral Judgment
Moral emotions aren't noise in the system—they're part of how we perceive what matters
What Neuroscience Reveals About Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Libet's legacy revisited: why the brain sciences refine rather than eliminate moral responsibility
The Evolutionary Roots of Human Morality
What happens to moral truth when evolution explains moral intuitions?
How Children Develop Moral Understanding
What infant morality and cross-cultural variation reveal about the architecture of human moral cognition
The Surprising Ethics of Self-Driving Car Dilemmas
What 40 million decisions reveal about the impossibility of morally neutral autonomous vehicles
Why We Care More About Identifiable Victims
Experimental research reveals we're moved by faces, not numbers—with profound implications for ethics and aid.
The Problem of Other Minds in Moral Psychology
Your moral intuitions depend on mind attributions you cannot verify and may be strategically motivated to distort.
How AI Systems Are Reshaping Fundamental Questions in Ethics
Building ethical machines reveals what human ethics cannot articulate about itself
How Disgust Hijacks Your Moral Reasoning
Research reveals disgust systematically amplifies moral condemnation—but whether it tracks wrongness or introduces bias remains philosophically unresolved.
Can Brain Scans Reveal What's Really Moral?
Neuroimaging reveals how we process moral judgments but cannot tell us what we ought to do—understanding this distinction matters.
The Surprising Moral Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives
Empirical research reveals liberals and conservatives aren't just disagreeing—they're speaking different moral languages entirely.
The Hidden Moral Psychology of Blame
Experimental research reveals systematic biases in how humans assign blame—challenging philosophical theories and legal practices alike.
Why Identical Twins Sometimes Have Different Moral Values
Behavioral genetics reveals why genes create moral tendencies rather than moral destinies—and what this means for education and persuasion.
What Trolley Problems Actually Teach Us About Ethics
Defending trolley dilemmas as precise diagnostic instruments while mapping both their genuine psychological discoveries and inherent methodological limitations
Why Clean Hands Feel Morally Superior: Embodied Ethics Research
Experimental philosophy tests whether handwashing and temperature actually alter moral judgment—or whether embodied cognition claims crumble under replication scrutiny.
How Psychopaths Challenge Our Theories of Moral Knowledge
The psychopath's intact moral knowledge but absent moral motivation exposes a fracture in ethical theory we cannot ignore.
The Dual-Process Revolution in Moral Psychology
How neuroscience revealed that your moral mind is a battleground between ancient emotions and modern reasoning—and why that matters for ethics.
Why Your Gut Feelings About Right and Wrong Are Surprisingly Unreliable
Experimental research reveals systematic biases in moral intuitions, demanding a calibrated approach to gut feelings in ethical reasoning.
Why We Judge Harmful Actions Worse Than Harmful Omissions
Decades of research reveal our moral distinction between doing and allowing harm—but is this intuition wisdom or bias?