A new book by a Stanford neurobiologist offers a jarring proposition: that humans do not have free will and thus cannot be considered morally responsible for our actions. In “Determined: A Science of ...

What Wouk ultimately seems to trust is neither command nor law alone, but conscience—fragile, pressured, often belated.

The deepest roots of our commitment to moral responsibility are in powerful emotions, rather than reason. There are many sources for the stubborn belief in moral responsibility, and some are quite ...

Modern society often speaks about universal values; human rights, equality, justice, the sanctity of life, as if they emerged naturally through human progress or Enlightenment thinking. In reality, ...

"The mothers in my selection of participants generally took more responsibility for the children socially and morally than the fathers did," she says. "When you study apparently equal situations in ...