Category: Philosophy

New philosophical framework ranks one form of theism above naturalism in three-theory comparison

A new peer-reviewed philosophy paper formalises inference to the best explanation and ranks a trope-based...

Moral priorities looked surprisingly similar across 41 cultural groups

Across 6,561 students from 41 cultural groups, researchers found a broadly similar hierarchy of moral...

Driver character shaped moral judgments more strongly than traffic rules or outcomes in immersive simulations

Two experiments with professional ethicists and university students found that portrayed driver character had the...

Bilinguals looked at moral dilemmas differently in their first and second languages

Eye tracking of 89 Chinese-English bilinguals found distinct links between visual attention and moral choices...

Even highly responsive AI was judged less conscious than minimally responsive humans

Across five preregistered experiments with 1,092 UK participants, people treated AI awareness as behaviour-dependent but...

Mindfulness course reduced stress but did not change climate or equality choices

An eight-week randomized mindfulness course reduced stress and increased self-compassion and connection to nature, but...

Restorative management can create loyalty that crosses ethical lines

A two-wave US employee study found that restorative responses to workplace wrongdoing can build gratitude,...

Moral judgments shifted sharply when traffic dilemmas moved from text to video

Two experiments found that moral judgments in everyday traffic scenarios changed with driver character, rule...

Rousseau’s 18th-century theory explains why social media can turn identity into a competition

A new philosophical analysis uses Rousseau to explain how social media profiles, visible metrics and...

AI can sound moral without being a moral partner, philosopher warns

A new philosophy paper argues that aligned AI can reliably imitate moral behaviour without becoming...

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