Trolleyology (MORAL DILEMMAS + THE TROLLEY PROBLEM) with Joshua Greene

Oh hey, it's that guy at the coffee shop overthinking his milk choice. Allie Ward, the zoology is. This is not one you saw coming, is it? Unless you're either a Harvard and Princeton trained philosopher and academic. But my guest is a Harvard and Princeton trained philosopher and academic.

He's a member of the Center for Brain Science and a professor of psychology at Harvard. He's dedicated his life and career to the psychology and the neuroscience of how the brain forms complex ideas and makes choices and uses real, real philosophical humdingers in his analyses. And one of the courses he teaches is titled Evolving Morality from Primordial Soup to super intelligent machines.

And he wrote the book Moral Tribes, Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between us and them. Now, during this interview, we chatted via a video call and I had to ask the guests a few times to make sure that the collar of his shirt wasn't rubbing on his mic. And the best solution was to undo a couple of shirt buttons and like blay his collar out like he was gonna saunter onto a dance floor in Miami. And he seemed genuinely mortified by it.

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