A Very Bad Wizard

In the first edition of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain â Nine Conversations philosopher Tamler Sommers talked with an interdisciplinary group of the worldâs leading researchersâfrom the fields of social psychology moral philosophy cognitive science and primatologyâall working on the same issue: the origins and workings of morality. Together these nine interviews pulled back some of the curtain not only on our moral lives butâthrough Sommersâ probing entertaining and well informed questionsâon the way morality traditionally has been studied. This Second Edition increases the subject matter adding eight additional interviews and offering features that will make A Very Bad Wizard more useful in undergraduate classrooms. These features include structuring all chapters around sections and themes familiar in a course in ethics or moral psychology; providing follow-up podcasts for some of the interviews which will delve into certain issues from the conversations in a more informal manner; including an expanded and annotated reading list with relevant primary sources at the end of each interview; presenting instructor and student resources online in a companion website. The resulting new publication promises to synthesize and make accessible the latest interdisciplinary research to offer a brand new way to teach philosophical ethics and moral psychology. . Language: English