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Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Kurt Gray, "Explaining Moral Judgment"
When |
Feb 28, 2019
from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
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Where | Memorial Lounge, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center |
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Kurt Gray, Associate Professor of psychology at UNC Chapel Hill, is the third speaker in the Expanding Empathy Speaker Series. He will discuss why the past 20 years of moral psychology research may be misguided and outlines a new theory of moral judgment grounded in mind perception.
Speaker Series: Expanding Empathy
Speaker: Kurt Gray
Title: Explaining Moral Judgment
In science, he likes to wield Occam's razor to defend parsimony, asking whether complex phenomena can be simplified and understood through basic processes. These phenomena include moral judgment, group genesis, and psychopathology. He has been named an APS Rising Star and was awarded the Janet Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Research. He was also given the SPSP Theoretical Innovation Award for the article "Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality." His work has been generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He is currently working on a book co-authored with the late, great Daniel Wegner.
The Expanding Empathy speaker series is sponsored by the Moral Agency and Moral Development Initiative of the Rock Ethics Institute (REI) and is convened by Daryl Cameron, a core faculty member of the REI and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Penn State.