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.
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.
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