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Lesson 6:  In the article Whose Life Would You Save? the research of Joshua Green is explained. Greene would agree with this statement: many of the world great conflicts are not rooted in neuronal differences but in cultural ones.  

Lesson 6:  What kinds of topics would we cover in the “ethics of neuroscience?”

Lesson 6: What does the Trolley Dilemma show us about human morality?

Lesson 5: In the Jonathan Haidt Ted Talk in lesson 5, he entertains that the “staircase” may be an evolutionary adaptation.

Lesson 6: What are the significance of mirror neurons?

Lesson 5: In the Lesson 5 film called Where do Morals Come From?, Alex, the narrator, flatly rejects the idea of Singer’s expanding Moral Circle.

Lesson 6: In the article Whose Life Would You Save? the research of Joshua Greene is discussed. Which statement fits best with the article?

Lesson 6: What part of the brain might account for psychopathic behavior, according to a film in Lesson 6 (Ted TalK on altruism)?

Lesson 5: According to the Evolution and Morality article by Dr. Boeree, the author states that:

Lesson 5: In the Nicholas Wade article on the beginning of morality in primates, it mentions the primatologist Frans de Waal. What does de Waal argue?