The moral law within me: the biological roots of moral behaviour
St Petersburg University Representative Office in Barcelona invites you to the lecture "The moral law within me: the biological roots of moral behaviour", a part of the «Something human. Homo sapiens as a uniquely human species» online series. Homo sapiens as a uniquely human species" series. The lecture will be delivered by Daria Podvigina, Candidate of Psychology.
Is morality innately human, or should we look for its origins in the animal world? Are monkeys, dogs and elephants capable of empathy and morality? To answer these questions, we will take a closer look at the behaviour of primates and other mammals. During our next meeting we will talk about animals capable of empathy, the origin of morality, and the impact of religion on ethics.
Lecturer
Daria Podvigina graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at St Petersburg University in 2002 and started working at Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the same year. Since 2015, she has been Senior Research Associate at the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies at St Petersburg University (since 2020 — the Institute for Cognitive Studies at the University). Her main research interests are neurophysiological and psychophysiological mechanisms of visual perception and recognition of complex images. She is the author of more than 40 scholarly papers. In addition to her research activities, she teaches a number of courses at the Institute for Cognitive Studies and at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St Petersburg University (lecture courses "Introduction to Life Sciences", "Human: Evolution, Culture, Behaviour", and others). The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.