Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Hardcover

"Unlikely to disappoint." -- Nicholas Wade, New York Times

"About one of the hottest new topics in intellectual life: the psychology and biology of morals. . . fascinating."--Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works

"An account of the nature of the human moral organ . . . a lucid, expert and challenging introduction."--Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, MIT

"Unlikely to disappoint."--Nicholas Wade, New York Times

"An audacious claim about moral thought...highly accessible to a general audience...a deeply significant intellectual contribution."--Nature

"For a wide audience...a superb overview of one of the hottest topics in the life sciences...a treat."--Science

"The scientific exploration of morality has advanced at a breathtaking pace... [an] enjoyable book."--Daniel Kahneman, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics

"The most complete attempt to bring together philosophy, anthropology, cognitive science and neuroscience... daring and wise."--Antonio Damasio, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California

"An intellectual feast that provokes thought and should stimulate critical reflection . . . a major contribution to an ongoing debate."--Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

"Pathbreaking... relevant to some of the most fundamental contemporary debates in philosophy and public life."--New York Review of Books

An intellectual exploration of the psychology and biology of morals challenges current opinions to argue that the human race has evolved a universal moral instinct that unconsciously guides individual and collective beliefs about what is right and wrong. 50,000 first printing.