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A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind The Curtain (2009)

by Tamler Sommers(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

193478138X (ISBN13: 9781934781388)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

McSweeney's

review 1: did not enjoy this book. i anticipated the science of philosophy, i received the philosophy of scientists. and philosophers. i don't think this book has very much value to a reader who is not separately aware of (and critical of!) the theories in question, despite it being packaged as philosophy for a general audience. i was very intrigued by the idea of fMRI as a measure of morality, but i learned nothing about those tests. i learned a lot about what the person who ran the tests thinks about morality, though, which might be interesting to some readers but left me pretty disappointed.
review 2: It has potential, but for the three weeks I had it out of the library I only picked it up twice. Probably my fault b/c I've not been in a non-fiction frame of min... mored the past few years....Loved the interview though with the scientist who performed the prison study & determined that it is the situation which corrupts morally-just people, not the other way round. Put a good person in a bad situation and they will most likely make bad decisions. It changed the way I think about situations like Abu Ghraib and other abuses. less

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