Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Moral particularism vs. scientific morality

An OpenCulture.com blurb about Craig Ferguson, on the Late Late Show, interviewing Jonathan Dancy, prof of philosophy at UT-Austin, about moral particularism. In contrast to Sam Harris, at a TED conference, saying "Science can answer moral questions."

The Open Culture page heads a little tree of interesting pieces: the two videos, a written intro to moral particularism, and a rebuttal of Harris by Sean Carroll.

1 comment:

Simon Levy said...

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven.

Dr. Haber, I mean Harris, I mean ...