[PDF] Astonishing Legends Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
✿ Patricia S. Churchland ✿
| #537698 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2012-08-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.67 x.68 x5.94l,.92 | File Name: 0691156344 | 288 pages |
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| What Neuroscience Tells us about Morality--Not!|By Herbert Gintis|"Morality seems to me to be a natural phenomenon--constrained by the forces of natural selection, rooted in neurobiology, shaped by the local ecology, and modified by cultural development." So Churchland summarizes this book. I am totally in sympathy with this view, which Churchland supports with clear and logic||Winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers|One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
"[Patricia Churchland] finds that morality is all about empathy. . . .
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. The result is a provocative genealogy of morals that asks us to reevaluate the priorit...
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