SB: A philosophically very controversial and problematic attempt to formulate the bases of a science of morality.
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
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Neuroscientist and philosopher Adina Roskies on free will and how we make moral decisions
(Professor Roskies, min. 18 - 40)
The "is" of science and the "ought" of morality
"So, I come to this field both as a philosopher and as a scientist, and so, my real, core interest is in this relationship between the "is" of moral psychology, the "is" of science, and the "ought" of morality. What I'd like to do is present an alternative metaphor [to the one that Haidt offered], an alternative analogy, to the big picture of moral psychology. " Joshua Greene.
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