The Science and Philosophy of Moral Reasoning - Richard Carrier
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Unlike religious moral systems, atheist moral systems are evidence- and science-based, incorporate logic and reason informedly, and attend to the factual realities of human life and emotion.
Dr. Carrier will survey the most important things science and philosophy has discovered about what morality is, how moral reasoning works, and what it means to say one moral system is better than another, and thus moral progress factually real.
Richard Carrier is the author of many books and numerous articles online and in print. His avid readers span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, humanism, and feminism, and the origins of Christianity and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He is also a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and historical methods.