Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them

Joshua Greene introduces his recent Moral Tribes as an "ambitious book" (2013, 5). 1 It covers a vast range of empirical and philosophical ground, including an overview of Greene's research in the neuroscience of morality, a survey of the current state of much recent experimental moral philosophy and related areas in the social sciences, and an ethical argument for the "deep pragmatism" interpretation of utilitarianism.Greene is not only ambitious in his coverage, but also in his philosophical targets.He challenges the foundations of many historical and contemporary approaches in ethics: emotion, reason, religion, and science.The book, intended for a general audience, will likely be received as part of a…