Jonathan Haidt - A Tippling Philosopher

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Jonathan Haidt

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Does Belief in God Drive One's Politics or Politics Drive One's Belief in God?

Disclaimer: I, like many of you, am an agnostic-atheist and so the answer is neither. Or is it? Because this question can be applied to me, too. Let me elucidate... In general terms, for religious people, what is the direction of causality? A few things to note first here; firstly,

Duval vs Haidt: Moral Foundations Critiqued

[This post is a guest post from Alan Duval] Jonathan has kindly invited me to present my work on the psychology of morality. What follows is largely drawn from my dissertation, which I submitted as part of the requirement for my BSc in psychology. Despite being a psychology dissertation, I

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On non-religious children having greater altruism and empathy

Hitting the news today was research using data from around the word which showed that children from non-religious families were more altruistic and empathetic than their religious counterparts. This is interesting because it fits into a wider picture as to how religion works in tandem with identity,

Post hoc rationalisation - reasoning our intuition and changing our minds

Post hoc rationalisation is what most of us end up doing when we reason. We have a gut instinct, a potentially irrational or a-rational decision based on the underlying cognitive faculties connected to our whole personhood, physical reactions and gut instincts.