Research findings from four disciplines of neuroscience (neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, behavioral sciences, and cell biology) are moving us toward a conceptualization of morality that emphasized our instersubjectivity. As we come to a greater understanding of how our interpersonal interactions affect our biology and psychology, these research findings suggest that our understanding of morality must be based in our intersubjective behaviors. This supports some spiritual wisdom and challenges others.

Photography and film-making are increasingly integrated into many aspects of a student’s academic life.  Even two decades ago, visual images of others were for private or small group viewing.  This is no longer the case. We now have cell phone cameras, Facebook, blogging and other means of communicating images to a wide audience in a very short time.  Many of these images find second lives, being shared in ever-widening networks or, even, picked up by news outlets.  And this dramatic technical change raises questions that are not part of most students’ thinking.  Now is the moment, when with the many service-learning projects and increased funding for undergraduate research at Duke and other schools, to examine what it means to take, own and share a photograph.

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