Lorraine Besser

I liked the main message of the class and thought it was really great with the interdisciplinary Phil/psych. Besser's lecture style was often scattered and redundant but her points did end up making sense. the class does really change your worldview.

This class is a total head-trip because the professor is obsessed with proving that our "rational" moral choices are actually just gut reactions we try to justify after the fact. It’s wild—they’ll throw out these cringy, taboo scenarios just to show us that we’re basically lawyers for our own emotions rather than logical judges. You walk out of every lecture realizing your brain is just a bundle of evolutionary biases, and it makes you look at every political argument or social media feud in a completely different way.

This class is a total head-trip because the professor is obsessed with proving that our "rational" moral choices are actually just gut reactions we try to justify after the fact. It’s wild—they’ll throw out these cringy, taboo scenarios just to show us that we’re basically lawyers for our own emotions rather than logical judges. You …Read more

Professor Besser is really kind and passionate about the topics she teaches, some of the concepts of this class are hard to grasp but professor Besser always spends enough time of each argument analysing them under different lights to make sure everyone understood, which might at times make the course seem to be extremely slow paced. But she doesn't share the slides.