John Doris, Washington University in St. Louis
Doris’ research is located at the intersection of psychology, cognitive science, and philosophical ethics. His book Lack of Character (Cambridge 2002) argues that reflection on experimental social psychology problematizes familiar conceptions of moral character. Doris’ current research involves both theoretical and empirical research on moral responsibility, evaluative diversity, psychopathology, and the self. His website is: located here
Owen Flanagan, Duke University
Owen Flanagan (Ph.D. 1977, Boston University) joined the Duke faculty in 1993 as Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He also holds appointments in Psychology and Neurobiology and is a Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience. His books include Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, edited with Amelie O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990), Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Harvard University Press, 1991), Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press, 1996), The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them (Basic Books, 2003). His website is: located here
Jorge Moll, National Institutes of Health
He graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of the Rio de Janeiro (1994) and completed medical residence in Neurology in the same university in 1997. His doctorate is in Sciences (Fisiopatologia Experimental -Human Physiology) by the University of São Paulo (2004). He specializes in cognitive neuroscience, focusing on the neural bases moral cognition and behavior, neuroscience & social psychology, moral emotions and antisocial behavior, through clinical studies and neuropsychological studies of patients with neuropsychologcial disturbances using experiments of functional magnetic resonance. His website is: located here
Linda Skitka, University of Illinois at Chicago
She has three major areas of interrelated research, and each aim at understanding how people’s belief systems shape their thoughts, feelings, and behavior. More specifically, her core research focus is on (a) how people reason about justice and fairness, (b) how attitudes held as strong moral convictions (i.e., beliefs about right and wrong, moral and immoral) differ in antecedents and consequences from otherwise strong, but non-moral attitudes, and (c) understanding different aspects of political reasoning, and in particular, the cognitive and motivational underpinnings of the left-right political divide. Her website is: located here
David Wong, Duke University
David Wong (Ph.D. Princeton, 1977) is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy. His works include Moral Relativity (University of California Press, 1984) and Natural Moralities (Oxford University Press, 2006. The main subjects of his research include 1) the nature and extent of moral differences and similarities across and within societies and how these differences and similarities bear on questions about the objectivity and universality of morality; 2) the attempt to understand morality naturalistically as arising from the attempt of human beings to structure their cooperation and to convey to each other what kinds of lives they have found to be worth living; 3) the nature of conflicts between basic moral values and how these give rise to moral differences across and within societies; 4) how we attempt to deal with such conflicts in moral deliberation; 5) the relevance of comparative philosophy, especially Chinese-Western (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism) comparative philosophy, to the above subjects; 6) Whether our reasons to feel and act are based solely on what we already desire or whether reasons transcend what we desire and are used to critically evaluate and shape our desires; 7) the extent to which a person's recognizing that she has reasons to feel and act in certain ways can enter into the constitution of her emotions and change those emotions. His website is: located here