Emotivism teaches that moral statements do nothing more than express the speaker's feelings about the issue. Emotivism is no longer a view of ethics that has many supporters. Like subjectivism it ...

This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. My annual "Award of the Year" goes to Merriam-Webster, the dictionary guys, for giving their "Word of the Year Award" to the word "truthiness." ...

There are two main views on morality. The traditional one is that there are objective moral norms that tell us what is right to do. It came from religion and assumed that God provides us with the ...

In 1957, the social psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term "cognitive dissonance" to describe the stress that results from holding two or more contradictory beliefs at the same time. According to ...