Jason McKenzie Alexander/ Keith Jensen/ Andrew Pinsent/ Kristina Musholt
Tuesday 22 November 2011, 6.30 – 8pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE
Jason McKenzie Alexander, Reader in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
Keith Jensen, Lecturer in Comparative and Developmental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
Andrew Pinsent, Research Director, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford
Chair: Kristina Musholt, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy
Humans can act morally, even though they do not always do so. But what generates this moral capability? How much is it part of our basic biology, appearing in other animals and during our early development? How is it socialised? Is it reasoned, emotional, or does it derive from some other source entirely?
