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Romantic Dysfunction, BPD, and Moral Responsibility
It is commonly argued that for one to be morally responsible, one must have control over one’s actions (see here for a run-down on arguments for that claim). Now, one does not generally concede that a person is moral pariah simply because the person is in the deepest stages of love, even if we do tend to […]
Can Babies Unlock the Origins of Morality? Not So Fast.
November 19, 2012 by Justin Caouette
Recent Psychological studies suggest that babies have an innate moral sense. On October 18th, CBS aired “The Baby Lab” ( it’s worth the 13 minutes for anyone interested in the Origins of Morality)where they interviewed Psychologists Paul Bloom and Karen Wynn. Both claim that their studies are telling of the “the origins of morality“. This suggests […]
Psychopaths: Morally Responsible?
May 24, 2012 by Justin Caouette
In April I gave a talk at a Free Will/ Moral Responsibility conference near my hometown in Massachusetts on the culpability of psychopaths. There, I argued that psychopaths are morally responsible for their actions because they have the necessary cognitive mechanisms one needs to properly judge an action as morally right or morally wrong. Now […]
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A Philosopher's Take 
January 22, 2014 by Ray Aldred
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