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, February 22, 2011

Rebecca Saxe: On the neural basis of morality - changing moral judgments by using TMS

Changing the moral judgments of people using transcranial magnetic stimulation. 