Morality & Reason

The Templeton Foundation recently asked a number of scholars the following question:

Does moral action depend on reasoning?

Their answers are all pretty interesting. You can check them out here. Several of them reference the research that I mentioned in my recent posts which mentioned Jonathan Haidt (link1, link2).

But I particularly liked Jonah Lehrer’s answer. He goes in a different direction and tries to use recent fMRI studies of psychopaths as a control group to tease out the causality. He gets into more detail on his blog, which has also been collecting some interesting comments on the subject.