Braintrust [electronic resource] : what neuroscience tells us about morality / Patricia S. Churchland.
Churchland, Patricia Smith.
2011
QP430 .C58 2011eb
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Title Braintrust [electronic resource] : what neuroscience tells us about morality / Patricia S. Churchland.
Author Churchland, Patricia Smith.
Variant Title What neuroscience tells us about morality
ISBN 9781400838080 (electronic book)
9780691137032
Publication Details Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (273 p.) : ill.
Call Number QP430 .C58 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.8
Summary 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 priority given to religion, absolute rules, and pure reason in accounting for the basis of morality.
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Introduction
Brain-based values
Caring and caring for
Cooperating and trusting
Networking : genes, brains, and behavior
Skills for a social life
Not as a rule
Religion and morality.

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