How to cultivate collective intellectual humility
Being smart is knowing what you don’t know. From work meetings to book clubs, use these tips to boost your group’s thinking
by Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso & Mark Alfano
Mark Alfano is a philosophy professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Character as Moral Fiction (2013) and Moral Psychology: An Introduction (2016), and dozens of research articles on topics ranging from intellectual humility to moral emotions to Friedrich Nietzsche to artificial intelligence.
Written by Mark Alfano
A sense of humour – even a dark one – is a moral virtue
A sense of humour is a moral virtue that can help people flourish, even in dire conditions that are conducive to unhappiness
by Mark Alfano & Mandi Astola
‘Moral molecules’ – a new theory of what goodness is made of
Seven basic moral elements could be the building blocks of morality, recombining as needed to form new moral molecules
by Oliver Scott Curry, Mark Alfano, Mark Brandt & Christine Pelican