Monday, June 29, 2009

The Censorship Canard, Again | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

The Censorship Canard, Again | The Intersection | Discover Magazine: "29. Peter Beattie

I’d be happy to defend the position that science has plenty to tell us about how our actual behavior actually affects other people and ourselves. And how science can help us peer into moral gray areas. And tell us about how we make moral judgments in reality, and how that might contrast with how we think we should be making moral judgments. And how are supposed values line up with how the world actually is. And how knowing how the world actually is can help us make better value judgments, and help set priorities among competing values, and how realistic or arbitrary our values are, and so on."

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