Decisions about climate change are inherently moral. They require making moral judgements important values and the desired state of present future world. Hence there potential benefits in explaining action by integrating well-established emerging knowledge on role morality decision-making. Insights from social behavioural sciences can help ground decisions empirical understandings how worldview...

Responding to Carlo Caduff’s comments on an earlier paper of mine provides me with the opportunity to refine my defense and illustration of moral anthropology. After having recalled that my personal encounter with moralities and ethics was of the kind of Monsieur Jourdain’s discovery of prose, rather than a deliberate effort to apply moral philosophy to social science, I attempt to clarify my p...

Geography is experiencing a ‘moral turn’ in its research interests and practices. There is also a flourishing interest in animal geographies that intersects this turn, and is concurrent with wider scholarly efforts to reincorporate animals and nature into our ethical and social theories. This article intervenes in a dispute between Michael Dear and Richard Symanski. The dispute is over the cull...

Globally, sex workers have highlighted the harms that accompany anti-prostitution efforts advanced via anti-trafficking policy, and there is a growing body of social science research has emerged documenting how contribute to carceral sexual humanitarian interventions. Yet mounting evidence on policies done little quell passage more laws, including aimed at stopping exploitation facilitated by t...

Abstract Charles Sanders Peirce offers a number of arguments against the rational application theory to morality, suggesting instead that morality should be grounded in instinct. maintains we currently lack scientific knowledge would justify structuring morality. This being case, philosophically generated moralities cannot otherwise than dogmatic and dangerous. In this paper, I contend Peirce’s...

“Moral principle is the foundation of law.” Ronald Dworkin Should gay marriage be legalized? Should abortion be outlawed? Regardless of their answers, people are usually quite confident in them. People have strong intuitions about what behaviors are morally right and wrong, from controversial political and legal issues to everyday interactions with friends, colleagues, and strangers. When the l...