Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong
&#8220;About one of the hottest new topics in intellectual life: the psychology and biology of morals. . . fascinating.&#8221; (Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works)&#8220;An account of the nature of the human moral organ . . . a lucid, expert and challenging introduction.&#8221; (Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, MIT)&#8220;An intellectual feast that provokes thought and should stimulate critical reflection . . . a major contribution to an ongoing debate.&#8221; (Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University)&#8220;The most complete attempt to bring together philosophy, anthropology, cognitive science and neuroscience... daring and wise.&#8221; (Antonio Damasio, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California)&#8220;The scientific exploration of morality has advanced at a breathtaking pace&#8230; [an] enjoyable book.&#8221; (Daniel Kahneman, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics)&#8220;For a wide audience...a superb overview of one of the hottest topics in the life sciences...a treat.&#8221; (Science)&#8220;An audacious claim about moral thought...highly accessible to a general audience...a deeply significant intellectual contribution.&#8221; (Nature)&#8220;Unlikely to disappoint.&#8221; (Nicholas Wade, New York Times)&#8220;Pathbreaking... relevant to some of the most fundamental contemporary debates in philosophy and public life.&#8221; (New York Review of Books)