The new science of morality that will change how we see each other how we build our
communities and how we live our lives. In Changing How We Choose David Redish makes a bold
claim: Science has cracked the problem of morality. Redish argues that moral questions have a
scientific basis and that morality is best viewed as a technology-a set of social and
institutional forces that create communities and drive cooperation. This means that some moral
structures really are better than others and that the moral technologies we use have real
consequences on whether we make our societies better or worse places for the people living
within them. Drawing on this new scientific definition of morality and real-world applications
Changing How We Choose is an engaging read with major implications for how we see each other
how we build our communities and how we live our lives. Many people think of human
interactions in terms of conflicts between individual freedom and group cooperation where it
is better for the group if everyone cooperates but better for the individual to cheat. Redish
shows that moral codes are technologies that change the game so that cooperating is good for
the community and for the individual. Redish an authority on neuroeconomics and
decision-making points out that the key to moral codes is how they interact with the human
decision-making process. Drawing on new insights from behavioral economics sociology and
neuroscience he shows that there really is a new science of morality and that this new science
has implications-not only for how we understand ourselves but also for how we should construct
those new moral technologies.
