How should Muslims address moral arguments to non-Muslims? If there is no moral knowledge outside revelation, then it seems such arguments, which are saliently addressed by Muslims to non-Muslim interlocutors on topics including justice for Palestine, anti-Muslim prejudice, and many other issues, must be something other than good faith appeals to reason. This has disturbing implications for co-operation in pursuit of justice along religious lines.

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Megan Ming Francis, author of the award winning book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State (2014).

This paper explores the effects of affective polarization on cooperative behavior through a behavioral experiment conducted in Brazil and Spain. Participants were asked to perform a simple, one-shot asynchronous task: converting to capital letters either a neutral salad recipe or a politically charged text written by another individual. The experiment varied also both the political affiliation of the original author—presented as a supporter of the participant’s most liked or disliked political party—and the type of reward offered for task completion.