Heroism represents the ideal of citizens transforming civic virtue into the highest form of civic action, accepting either physical peril or social sacrifice. While implicit theories of heroism abound, surprisingly little theoretical or empirical work has been done to better understand the phenomenon. Toward this goal, we summarize our efforts to systematically develop a taxonomy of heroic subt...

The enforcement of morals through legal sanctions is not a new topic to legal philosophers. It has, in the past decade, been the object of a new and thorough examination, though it is still open to further discussion. The "new morality" of the second half of the twentieth century will also contribute to keep the fire alive as a result of the widening gap between the traditional Christian morali...

The leakage of secret information has increasingly become a social problem. Information leaks typically result from the targeting of specific organizations or persons and are based on a variety of factors. One factor common to the majority of leaks is the relationship between corporate culture and information morals. Organizations that lack robust standards of information morals are at a greate...

Within cognitive science, mental processing is often construed as computation over mental representations—i.e., as the manipulation and transformation of mental representations in accordance with rules of the kind expressible in the form of a computer program. This foundational approach has encountered a long-standing, persistently recalcitrant, problem often called the frame problem; it is som...