Coursera · Paul Bloom, Yale University
Moralities of Everyday Life
A Yale course examining the psychological foundations of moral judgment, including kindness, cruelty, empathy, and disagreement.
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Ethics and Moral Psychology courses and tutorials
Explore ethics and moral-psychology learning for judgment, reasoning, empathy, and disagreement, with guidance on separating descriptive and normative questions.
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About Ethics and Moral Psychology
Ethics asks how people ought to act, while moral psychology examines how judgments and behavior arise. The questions inform one another without being identical. Distinguishing them helps prevent an observation from becoming an unsupported moral conclusion.
Choose a useful starting point
Choose a course according to whether you want philosophical argument or psychological explanation. Examine evidence and assumptions carefully. A striking experiment or example rarely settles a broad disagreement on its own.
Build on the lessons
Describe a moral disagreement as a conflict of conclusions, then identify the assumptions or priorities behind it. Explain which question is descriptive and which is normative.