Moral Minds by Marc Hauser - ISBN: 9780349118093
Paperback
Explore the science of right and wrong, temptation and control.

Moral Minds

How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

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  • Paperback

    560 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2008

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Summary

Now in B format.

A ground-breaking book that will do for morality what THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT did for language.

Temptation and control are like two players in an arms race, displaying competition like that between predators and prey, parasites and hosts, and Americans and Russians during the Cold War. In this book, brilliant Harvard academic Marc Hauser evaluates recent developments in evolutionary biology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, economics and anthropology…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349118093
ISBN-10:0349118094
Author:Marc Hauser
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Release Date:1 June 2008
Weight:372g
Dimensions:133mm x 201mm x 37mm
Series:Abacus
What They're Saying

Critics Review

This book describes many fascinating findings from a wide range of psychological experiments

The theory set out in MORAL MINDS is certainly intriguing. It could yet remap the way moral philosophers think - THE TIMES

This book describes many fascinating findings from a wide range of psychological experiments - INDEPENDENT

Hauser’s theory … has implications for everything, from the personal - our levels of guilt, how we judge others or respond to temptation - to religion, ethics and the law. The results are far-reaching and fascinating - PSYCHOLOGIES MAGAZINE

About The Author

Marc Hauser

Marc Hauser is a full professor in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neurosciences at Harvard University, a Harvard College Professor, adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education, and a Co-Director of the Mind, Brain and Behaviour Program at Harvard.

Author Location: New York, USA

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