Marc Hauser
contemporaryEvolutionary Cognitive Scienceb. 1959
Marc Hauser is an American evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist known for his work on animal cognition, moral psychology, and the evolution of the language faculty. He is the author of Moral Minds, which argues for a universal moral grammar analogous to Chomsky's universal grammar, though his academic career was curtailed by a 2010 finding of scientific misconduct at Harvard.
Notable Achievements
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Authored Moral Minds (2006), proposing a universal moral grammar
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Co-authored influential 2002 Science paper with Chomsky and Fitch on the faculty of language
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Conducted extensive research on primate cognition and comparative psychology
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Developed experimental paradigms for studying moral intuitions across cultures