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Where do our ideas of right and wrong come from? Can the evolutionary processes that produced human beings explain the moral frameworks adopted by human societies? And what can developmental biology tell us about the emergence of ethical behaviour in children? From anthropology to cognitive science, philosophy to evolutionary biology, we shed some light on the complex story of Homo moralis.
Speakers
Zanna Clay
Assistant Professor of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Durham University
Philip Pettit
L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
Simone Schnall
Reader in Experimental Social Psychology, University of Cambridge
Chair
Clare Moriarty
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy
IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Organized in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Philosophy
This event forms part of the ‘Shape the World’ series, held in the run up to the LSE Festival, a week-long series of events taking place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020, free to attend and open to all, exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. The full programme will be available online from January 2020.
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All welcome | Free to attend | First come, first served at the door