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Informationen zum Autor A. David Redish Klappentext "Redish builds on work on morality in economics, genetics, evolution, etc. and combines it with the latest research in neuroscientific decision-making to develop a coherent science of morality"-- Zusammenfassung The “new science of morality” that will change how we see each other, how we build our communities, and how we live our lives. In Changing How We Choose , David Redish makes a bold claim: Science has “cracked” the problem of morality. Redish argues that moral questions have a scientific basis and that morality is best viewed as a technology—a set of social and institutional forces that create communities and drive cooperation. This means that some moral structures really are better than others and that the moral technologies we use have real consequences on whether we make our societies better or worse places for the people living within them. Drawing on this new scientific definition of morality and real-world applications, Changing How We Choose is an engaging read with major implications for how we see each other, how we build our communities, and how we live our lives. Many people think of human interactions in terms of conflicts between individual freedom and group cooperation, where it is better for the group if everyone cooperates but better for the individual to cheat. Redish shows that moral codes are technologies that change the game so that cooperating is good for the community and for the individual. Redish, an authority on neuroeconomics and decision-making, points out that the key to moral codes is how they interact with the human decision-making process. Drawing on new insights from behavioral economics, sociology, and neuroscience, he shows that there really is a “new science of morality” and that this new science has implications—not only for how we understand ourselves but also for how we should construct those new moral technologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Searching for a Science of Morality 3 I Moral Experiments 2 Economic Games 17 3 The Assurance Game 29 4 Reciprocity 45 5 Asabiya 55 6 Social Control 73 II How We Choose 7 The Neuroscience of Choice 91 8 Moral and Immoral Actions 103 9 Intrinsic Goals 125 10 Empathy and Trust 145 11 Trauma, Moral Injury, and Resilience 155 Transition 12 From Science to Engineering 169 III Institutions and Policies 13 The Rules of the Road 187 14 Justice and Redemption 207 15 Religion 223 16 Government 241 17 Beyond Humanity 251 IV The New Science of Morality 18 Beyond Moral Relativism 265 19 Better Moral Structures 273 20 Conclusion 291 Acknowledgments 297 Glossary 299 Notes 305 Bibliography 329 Index 357...
