Philip Gorski is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University, where he is currently concluding a major project on the philosophy of the the social sciences. His most recent book is American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (2017).
Philip Gorski
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Writing on Public Books
The Big Picture: Religion and the Republic
I still remember reading Tocqueville’s Democracy in America for the first time, as a freshman in college. I was astonished! How could this French aristocrat have understood us so well, I wondered …
Where do Morals Come From?
The social sciences have an ethics problem. No, I am not referring to the recent scandals about flawed and fudged data in psychology and political science.1 I’m talking about the failure of the social sciences to develop a satisfactory theory of ethical life. A theory that could explain why humans are constantly judging and evaluating, and […]
