The Dissenter #61 Oliver Scott Curry: Morality as Cooperation, Moral Foundations
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Dr. Oliver Scott Curry is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2005. In addition to his research, which focuses a lot on morality, Dr. Curry has previously taught courses on evolution and human behavior, covering evolutionary theory, animal behavior, evolutionary psychology, cross-cultural psychology, statistics and research methods. He is also a consultant for kindness.org.
In this episode, topics of conversation include: the evolution of cooperation in humans; game theory; if human morality if evolved or cultural; culture via nature; the relation between the development of killing tools and cooperation; how do we deal with sociality in studies of morality; gossip; sociality and morality; kin selection and human life history; kin selection vs reciprocal altruism; cooperation and conflict; the periodic table of ethics as developed by Dr. Curry and colleagues; the shortcomings of Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations and Alan Fiske’s Relational Models; the relation between morality and sociality; the problem with the term “moral norms”; and the relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology.
Time Links:
01:00 The lexical hypothesis, or studying personality through word frequencies of usage
03:00 The history behind the Big Five
09:04 Specific work done by Dr. Goldberg
12:35 Does the Big Five cover all aspects of personality
16:06 Big Five vs HEXACO
19:19 The problem with other personality inventories
15:45 Friends of friends get more help from us
18:32 Gossip
19:37 Are sociality and morality distinct entities?
20:39 Kin selection and human life history
24:02 Alloparenting and extended kin
26:27 Kin selection vs reciprocal altruism
29:23 How do we distinguish cooperation from conflict?
32:56 The periodic table of ethics and the shortcomings of other systems to classify morality
40:03 The problems with Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations
48:02 The relation between morality and personality
57:38 Is “moral norms” a useful term?
1:01:13 Does it make sense to talk about Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology in separate?
1:04:00 Follow Dr. Curry’s work!
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