Emotional Health Matters
The ability to understand how emotions affect our and others’ decisions is a big part of spirituality.
If someone develops a brain tumor that affects their decision-making, how responsible are they for their actions? Is a sense of meaning more important than a sense of right and wrong? How does religion change the way we talk about questions of good and evil?
These are a few of the questions that this Sinai and Synapses Discussion Forum explores.
The ability to understand how emotions affect our and others’ decisions is a big part of spirituality.
Science and rationality are great for knowing what is. But if we want to know what to do, we need more.
What do we learn from failure? What happens when our dogma — whether scientific or religious — turns out to be wrong?
If we are aiming to truly change the world, we need to think more broadly and more rationally.
What can we really predict about human behavior in light of increasing knowledge from genetics?
Instead of writing off the enemy as evil animals who are motivated by greed or mental illness, an anthropologist actually tries to understand where ISIS is coming from, so as to better interpret their motives.
The moral questions surrounding technological advances that advance life, maximizing goodness using reason and logic, and the complicated nature of goodness and power — here’s what’s new in science and morality this week.
Whether Dzhokar Tsarnev had free will, how “Star Wars” explores and subverts Christian themes, and the constant battle of America’s culture wars — here’s what’s new in science and morality this week.
Connor Wood argues that religion’s evolutionary adaptiveness (or lack thereof) shouldn’t have the slightest bearing on the epistemic credibility of religious beliefs, or the ultimate goodness of religion.
The good things we can learn from psychopaths, the different ways we talk about God vs. facts, and robot ethics — here’s what’s new in science and morality this week.