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SUMMARY:Morality in the Body: Influences of Bodily Experience on Moral Jud
 gments and Decisions - Dr. Chen-Bo Zhong\, University of Toronto
DTSTART:20130228T160000Z
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CONTACT:Nik Darshane
DESCRIPTION:Morality has historically been treated as external and prescri
 ptive\, with source varying from scriptural revelation to inherent natural
  law. Post-Enlightenment society sought to ground the source of moral judg
 ement in rational enquiry\, building on an idea of moral law analogous to 
 the natural law of physics and natural history. Recent advances in philoso
 phy\, psychology\, and other related fields\, however\, have begun to see 
 morality as at least partly rooted in the body. In this talk we present a 
 series of empirical investigations that connect moral judgement and decisi
 on making to the body by showing that moral reasoning is not only guided b
 y purity based metaphors such that disgust and cleanliness influence moral
  judgement but also is more generally grounded in concrete bodily experien
 ces. The latter perspective suggests that the acquisition and application 
 of moral conventions often requires the participation of somatic and physi
 ological experiences such as cardiovascular reaction (e.g.\, heart beat) t
 hat signal moral values and aid moral imagination. Understanding how these
  bodily experiences influence moral judgement and decision making could in
 form us about the nature of morality.\n
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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