Miguel
At 09:12 AM 3/22/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Now that I've got Allen Esterson and Stephen Black at each other's throats over the "incest taboo" thread (just kidding, of course. They're perfect gentlemen and it's been a fascinating discussion), I'd like to suggest yet another interesting topic that came to me via my favorite semi-non-academic journal, Discover which pits social against biological in a new arena: Moral choices.---
It's in this month's issue and is called "Whose life would you save?" Its actually about work done by Joshua Greene and Jonathon Cohen at Princeton about whether moral choices are cognitively based (and therefore quite human), or whether they have biological roots.
http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-04/features/whose-life-would-you-save/
I found it so fascinating that I made a PowerPoint presentation for use in class, which I'll attach, and anyone is welcome to use. I credited the writer of the article in it, the researchers, as well as Discover, so I don't think there should be any copyright infringement issues. Those who hate PowerPoint can just not click on the attachment. (And please take note, Michael Sylvester: This has potential classroom use.) My students loved it. (I also made handouts of the drawings from the article, but didn't include them in the PowerPoint presentation.) They really got into the concepts discussed and had some very new thoughts about the possible biological basis for many of our actions.
I'd love to hear if any of you use it, and whether it's a hit in your classes.
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
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