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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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Michael Gazzaniga and Patricia Churchland

Gazzaniga's claim in The Ethical Brain (2005) is controversial coming form a neuroscientist:

“[we] will never find the brain correlate of responsibility, because that is something we ascribe to humans -- to people -- not to brains."

Read what he says about it here and Patricia Churchland's reflections here.