What Can Babies, Puppets, and Pacific Islanders Tell Us About Morality?

What Can Babies, Puppets, and Pacific Islanders Tell Us About Morality?

Date & Time: Monday, October 21, 8:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Green College Coach House, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road

Description: Where does human morality come from? Is morality innate – built into our very nature – or learned through socialization? Such questions about innateness have typically been addressed in one of two ways: 1) by looking for evidence of the purportedly innate trait early in development, or 2) by looking for the trait across diverse social situations. Though these two approaches address the same questions, they have typically been difficult to integrate. In this talk, McNamara will discuss how these two traditions tell us what we (think) we know about human nature as a moral animal, and how these perspectives are being integrated in the burgeoning new field of developmental cross-cultural psychology.

Ticketing Information: This is a FREE event. For more information, visit http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/whats_on/index/events925/2013-10.php

Open to Public, Recommended for All