The study of moral psychology has long occupied a liminal space between empirical science and normative philosophy, often scattered across disparate departments and methodologies. To bridge these divides, the International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) has launched with the goal of providing a formal, interdisciplinary home for the field. Led by inaugural president Valerie Tiberius of the University of Minnesota and vice-president Laura Niemi of Cornell University, the society aims to foster deeper engagement across global traditions and cultural contexts.
The society’s mandate is twofold: to host an annual conference and to establish a robust mentoring program for graduate students and early-career scholars. By focusing on the next generation of researchers, the ISMP hopes to stabilize the field’s future and encourage a more cohesive dialogue between the data-driven insights of psychology and the conceptual rigor of ethics.
The organization’s first conference is scheduled for this September at Cornell University. Currently, membership is being offered at no cost, supported by a grant from the Templeton World Charities Foundation. This initiative reflects a broader trend in academia toward formalizing niche intersections of study as they become increasingly relevant to understanding human behavior in a complex, globalized era.
With reporting from Daily Nous.
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