Tagged: Harvard University

Waking up to morality - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Oct 27, 2010 •

• belief,
• David Hume,
• Harvard University,
• Joshua Knobe,
• New Scientist,
• Peter Singer,
• philosophy,
• Princeton University,
• religion,
• Sciblogs,
• The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty,
• theology

I have come to the conclusion that a lot of what is said and written about morality is rubbish. So I am pleased to see that, at last, science is opening up to the idea that it can investigate this … Continue reading → … Read More

Fallout from Hauser affair spreads - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Sep 01, 2010 •

• evolution,
• evolutionary psychology,
• Harvard University,
• Marc Hauser,
• morality,
• Psychology,
• Sciblogs,
• science of morality,
• Scientific misconduct

For background to the scientific misconduct charges circulating around Marc D Hauser have a look at A paper by Marc Hauser retracted – Harvard Magazine, A sympathetic take on Marc Hauser and the “scientific misconduct” issue, Hauser misconduct investigation – … Continue reading → … Read More

Marc Hauser replies — acknowledges mistakes - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Aug 21, 2010 •

• Harvard University,
• Marc Hauser,
• research,
• Sciblogs,
• Scientific misconduct

Here is Marc Hauser’s response to the charge of scientific misconduct (from USA Today Updated: Harvard says Marc Hauser guilty of science misconduct). Hopefully we are seeing an example of science correcting itself. I am deeply sorry for the problems … Continue reading → … Read More

Hauser misconduct investigation — Full text of Dean’s statement - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Aug 21, 2010 •

• Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
• Harvard University,
• Marc Hauser,
• research,
• Sciblogs,
• scientific method

Well, we now have an official statement from Michael Smith, the Harvard dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, on the Hauser “misconduct” affair. It’s an email sent to Harvard University faculty members. It was also sent to New … Continue reading → … Read More

A sympathetic take on Marc Hauser and the ’scientific misconduct’ issue - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Aug 13, 2010 •

• ethics,
• evolution,
• Greg Laden,
• Harvard University,
• Marc Hauser,
• Moral Minds,
• morality,
• Sciblogs,
• Scientific misconduct

Greg Laden has provided a sympathetic take on the news of the scientific misconduct investigation of Marc Hauser (see What I know about Marc Hauser, the recently ‘investigated’ Harvard primatologist). He doesn’t have any more specific information on the alleged … Continue reading → … Read More

A paper by Marc Hauser retracted — Harvard Magazine - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Aug 11, 2010 •

• culture,
• evolution,
• Harvard University,
• Marc Hauser,
• morality,
• Sciblogs,
• Scientific misconduct

Well, this could be embarrassing. But I hope not. Marc Hauser, who was one of the participants in the “New Science of Morality” seminar (see The new science of morality and Is and ought) is under a cloud. His Harvard … Continue reading → … Read More