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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Monday, August 8, 2011

A realistic description of a person with affective empathy disorder

In Siri Hustvedt's novel What I loved (2003) you can find a fascinating literary description of a person suffering from a serious empathy disorder ("Mark Wechsler").

More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_I_Loved

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Literature meets neuroscience: novelist Siri Hustvedt talks with Antonio Damasio

Neuroscience, free will, the unconscious, Freud, literature, philosophy, Merleau-Ponty, psychopathy, the neural basis of morality, language, memory...

Siri Hustvedt and Antonio Damasio: VIDEO