Marc Hauser’s new book is Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. A review notes:
Marc Hauser’s groundbreaking book advances a new theory of moral judgment, synthesizing a great deal of work in neuroscience, psychology, and ethology, as well as the author’s own recent experimental work. Hauser aims to demonstrate that morality is innate in the way that language is innate
This sounds like it needs to be on my list to assist with further musings on natural law. Hat tip John Rutledge.
Solveig Singleton / Solveig Singleton is a lawyer and writer, with ventures into ceramic sculpture, photography, painting, and animal welfare work. Past venues for her policy work include the Cato Institute (mostly free speech, telecom, and privacy), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (mostly privacy and ecommerce), the Progress and Freedom Foundation (mostly IP). She is presently an adjunct fellow with the Institute for Policy Innovation and is working on a new nonprofit venture, the Convergence Law Institute. She holds degrees from Cornell Law School and Reed College. Favorite Movie: Persuasion. Favorite Books: Dhalgren; Villette; Freedom and the Law. Favorite Art: Kinetic sculpture--especially involving Roombas. Most obsolete current technology deployed: a 30 yr. old Canon AE-1. Music: these days, mostly old blues, classical guitar, Poe, Cowboy Junkies, Ministry. Phobia: Clowns.
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