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Please do, with my blessings. Of course, it's
Joshua Greene at Princeton and Carl Zimmer, the writer of the article in
Discover, who should get the credit. I'm just the
messenger. I'm glad you found it intriguing.
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:47
AM
Subject: Re: Are moral choices
biologically-based? (PPT attachment)
Beth, that was a most wonderful and intellectually provocative
presentation. I would love to share it with my psychology and philosophy
colleagues at St. John's. May I have your permission to forward your
post and attachment to them?
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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