Jonathan Haidt
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“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.” ― Jonathan Haidt "Throughout my career I have sought insights into morality from many disciplines. I found the experimental work in moral psychology to be mostly sterile and uninspiring. My early heroes were philosophers (like David Hume, Allan Gibbard and Owen Flanagan), sociologists (like Emile Durkheim), historians (like Keith Thomas) and anthropologists (like Richard Shweder and Alan Fiske). My heroes were the ones who had what I thought was the right view of human nature, emphasizing emotions, intuitions and the power of social and cultural forces. (Gutting is right that I should have cited Nietzsche, MacIntyre and Nussbaum.) To the extent that I seem disrespectful toward rationalist philosophers, it is because I found it frustrating to read the false psychological assumptions woven into many of their arguments." --Haidt[1] |
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Jonathan David Haidt (born October 19, 1963) is an American social psychologist. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and the moral emotions.
Haidt studied at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. He then performed post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago and in Orissa, India. Haidt was a professor at the University of Virginia from 1995 until 2011, when he joined the NYU Stern School of Business.
Haidt’s first book, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006), explored the relationship between ancient philosophies such as Stoicism and Buddhism and modern science. His second book, The Righteous Mind (2012), examined how morality is shaped by emotion and intuition more than by reasoning, and why differing political groups such as progressives, conservatives, and libertarians have such different notions of right and wrong.
His third book, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure was released in 2018, with Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Haidt has attracted both support and criticism for his critique of the current state of universities and his interpretation of progressive values. Haidt has been named one of the "top global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the "top world thinkers" by Prospect magazine. He is among the most cited researchers in political psychology, moral psychology, and has given four TED talks.
Haidt's main paper on the social intuitionist model, "The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail", has been cited over 7,800 times.
See also
- See "moral dumbfounding"
