Living According to Nature? The Biology of Human Nature and What It Tells us About Ethics

Massimo Pigliucci, City University of New York. Filmed on Wednesday 19 July 2017. We usually think of ethics as the province of religion and philosophy, not of science. Recently, however, a number of rather scientistically oriented authors have proposed that science — and in particular evolutionary biology, neurobiology, and psychology — is capable of answering moral questions, and that these disciplines will soon replace philosophy in this respect. I think the new scientism (and its close kin, the New A