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#422 Michael Tomasello: Interdependence, Shared Intentionality, Culture, and Morality

The Dissenter

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The Importance of Language for Human Morality

The importance of language for human morality, says evolutionary biologist. Language is a tool that shapes what you can do, he argues. We use it as a tooland it opens up possibilities we couldn't do without it. But the tools were created by people and they had to have certain capacities for creating it.

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