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In his (controversial?) book The Moral Landscape (Free Press, 2010), Sam Harris argues that science can determine human values - science can do more than just tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. Although in his view moral relativism is simply false, he goes in great detail arguing with those who believe so. Like the psychologist Jonathan Haidt who does not go so far as to say that reasoning never produces moral judgments but argues that this happens far less often than people think. Haidt has put forward a very influential thesis about moral judgment in his article The Emotional Dog and Its rational Tail; here is the summary:
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