Braintrust [electronic resource] : what neuroscience tells us about morality / Patricia S. Churchland.

Braintrust [electronic resource] : what neuroscience tells us about morality / Patricia S. Churchland.

What neuroscience tells us about morality

9781400838080 (electronic book)
9780691137032

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]

©2011

English

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

QP430 .C58 2011eb

612.8

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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