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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Tamler Sommers:  book signing and discussion\nEvent
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 ing_and_discussion\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-03-24\nEvent Date End: 2010-03-
 24\n\nBrazos Bookstore presents Tamler Sommers\, who signs and discusses A
  Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain\, Wednesday\, March 24\, at 
 7pm.\nDo we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon?
  Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are
  just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to a
 nswer in far-spanning interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the bur
 geoning field of moral psychology contained in his new book\, A Very Bad W
 izard: Morality Behind the Curtain.\nPhilip Zimbardo talks about his famou
 s &ldquo\;Stanford Prison Experiment&rdquo\; and how it relates to abuses 
 of Abu Ghraib. Harvard neuroscientist Josh Greene reports on the ways our 
 brains react to ethical dilemmas. Jonathan Haidt explains why we object to
  incest and how that relates to disagreements between conservatives and li
 berals. Renowned Primatologist Frans de Waal juxtaposes human behavior wit
 h that of the bonobo (a species he terms the 'hippie ape.') And much more.
  A Very Bad Wizard is essential reading for anyone curious about the origi
 ns and inner workings of our moral lives.\n'An intellectual feast\, comple
 tely engrossing.'\n&mdash\; Ian McEwan\n&ldquo\;A thought-provoking and en
 tertaining tour of one of the frontiers of human knowledge &mdash\; the ro
 ots of our moral sense.&rdquo\;\n&mdash\; Steven Pinker\, Harvard College 
 Professor of Psychology\, Harvard University\, and author of How the Mind 
 Works and The Stuff of Thought\n&ldquo\;Tamler Sommers has become somethin
 g of a legend in the world of philosophy\, not only for his profound insig
 hts into human morality\, but also for the almost supernaturally funny and
  engaging way he presents philosophical ideas.&hellip\; These interviews g
 ive the reader a real sense for some of the most important new research in
  the cognitive science of morality\, but they also do an amazing job of ca
 pturing some of the verve and excitement of this emerging new field.&rdquo
 \;\n&mdash\; Joshua Knobe\, Assistant Professor\, Program in Cognitive Sci
 ence and Department of Philosophy\, Yale University\nTamler Sommers is Ass
 istant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston\, and holds a 
 joint appointment with the Honor's College. He teaches primarily in ethics
 \, political philosophy\, and the philosophy of law\, specializing in issu
 es relating to free will and moral responsibility. His current research pr
 oject examines differences in perspectives about moral responsibility acro
 ss cultures and what these differences mean for the philosophical debate. 
 A book on this topic entitled Relative Justice is under contract with Prin
 ceton University Press.\nRecent publications include &ldquo\;The Two Faces
  of Revenge: Moral Responsibility and the Culture of Honor&rdquo\; (Biolog
 y and Philosophy)\, &ldquo\;More Work for Hard Incompatibilism&rdquo\; (Ph
 ilosophy and Phenomenological Research)\, and &ldquo\;The Objective Attitu
 de&rdquo\; (Philosophical Quarterly). Sommers also contributes regularly t
 o the Times Literary Supplement and conducts interviews for The Believer. 
 A collection of his interviews\, entitled A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behi
 nd the Curtain\, will has just been published by McSweeney's Press.\n\nSta
 rt time: 7:00pm
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