{"id":8543,"date":"2022-04-08T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:57:15","slug":"professor-victor-kumar-co-authors-boston-globe-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/2022\/04\/08\/professor-victor-kumar-co-authors-boston-globe-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Victor Kumar co-authors Boston Globe Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Victor Kumar<\/a>, along with his co-author Richmond Campbell, had an article published in the Boston Globe entitled, “Humans aren’t born selfish — just the opposite — and that’s reason for hope.”<\/strong> The article, appearing in the Perspectives section of the Globe’s Magazine, explores how the deep-rooted morality of humans will be a key tool in fighting climate change, challenging the general public opinion that portrays otherwise. Writes Kumar and Campbell:<\/p>\n

“As we come face to face with this dire scenario [of causing climate change], a dominant narrative has emerged \u2014 one we hear everywhere, from our students or implicit in films such as the recent climate apocalypse comedy\u00a0<\/span>Don\u2019t Look Up.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>The narrative is this: Humans are naturally selfish, unable to overcome our ingrained greed \u2014 for oil, or money, or meat \u2014 in time to prevent the catastrophe that we know is coming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since Darwin, many scientists \u2014 and many other people \u2014 have assumed natural selection is antithetical to morality…<\/span><\/p>\n

But this story misses something, simultaneously dooming us and letting us off the hook… Humans are not only innately moral, but also possess capacities for improving their morality.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Kumar has also recently co-authored a book with Dr. Campbell, a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, called “A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human”. Click here to learn more about the book!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to read the Boston Globe article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations, Professor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Victor Kumar, along with his co-author Richmond Campbell, had an article published in the Boston Globe entitled, “Humans aren’t born selfish — just the opposite — and that’s reason for hope.” The article, appearing in the Perspectives section of the Globe’s Magazine, explores how the deep-rooted morality of humans will be a key tool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,28,26,12],"tags":[23,48,49,50,14,47,22,52,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}