Braintrust : : What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality / / Patricia S. Churchland.
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 halftone. 11 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Brain-Based Values
- 3. Caring and Caring For
- 4. Cooperating and Trusting
- 5. Networking: Genes, Brains, and Behavior
- 6. Skills for a Social Life
- 7. Not as a Rule
- 8. Religion and Morality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index