Steven Pinker on Morality as a 'Sixth Sense'
Rebecca Goldstein
Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of The Stuff of Thought and How the Mind Works.
Is moral sense hardwired in the human brain? Psychologist Steven Pinker discusses morality and evolutionary roots. His article, "The Moral Instinct," was published recently in The New York Times Magazine.
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