On the intersection between descriptive ethics and cognitive neuroscience

DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS studies empirically the moral views, principles, thoughts, intuitions and emotions held by people. Descriptive ethics studies resemblances and differences among moral views, systems, theories and traditions. COGNITIVE/AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE is the field of mind and brain research that investigates the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition and emotion.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Looking for the frontiers of human flourishing and well-being: Morality as an undeveloped branch of neuroscience and psychology (Sam Harris, 2010)

SB: A philosophically very controversial and problematic attempt to formulate the bases of a science of morality.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Science of Virtues Research Network (University of Chicago)

The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is a research program on a New Science of Virtues. This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences. More.. http://scienceofvirtues.org/