Скачать или смотреть Across the Divide: Epistemic Cooperation | Joshua Greene

Is there a way to build trust between American liberals and conservatives? The present state of American politics amplifies the urgency of this question. The original moral problem is the problem of cooperation, the “Tragedy of the Commons”: Me vs. Us. Prioritizing the needs of the group over the needs of the individual is, to a certain point, an evolutionary advantage.

Distinctively modern moral problems are different. They involve what Dr. Greene calls the “Tragedy of Commonsense Morality,” which is about conflicting values and interests between social groups: Us vs. Them. These problems are much harder to solve because our brains did not evolve for wider cooperation beyond our tribe. Nevertheless, humans do have the capacity to form ideas and build institutions that expand this scope into a more universal one.

In this lecture, Dr. Greene discusses a strategy—which draws on decades
of research in psychology, economics, political science, and anthropology—which aims to combat tribalism through mutually rewarding cooperation.

This lecture was part of "Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution," a Leakey Foundation symposium held in September 2019 at the Morgan Library in New York.