Ben Fraser

Ben Confused

I did a B.A.(Philosophy) and a B.Sc.(Ecology and Animal Behaviour) at the University of Queensland. I am now a PhD candidate in the Philosophy program at ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences. I am interested in the evolution of human morality. My research is done from a philosophical point of view, but in a way that is very sensitive to empirical findings across many fields (psychology, biology, anthropology, and so on).

Publications

  • Fraser, B. (2006) Biology & Philosophy 21(3):443-52. Review of “What Makes Us Moral: Crossing the Boundaries of Biology” by Levy, N.
  • Fraser, B. (2007) Metapsychology Online. Review of “Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong”
  • Knobe, J. & Fraser, B. (forthcoming) “Causal Judgment and Moral Judgment: Two Experiments” in W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed), “Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality”. Cambridge, MIT Press

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