Book details of 'Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science'

Title	Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science
Author(s)	Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, Andy Clark
ISBN	0262631652
Language	English
Published	January 1996
Publisher	MIT Press

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
The papers presented in the book come from a conference on Mind and Morals held at Washington University in St. Louis during 1994. The emphasis on cognitive science should not mislead technical readers: the presenters are all philosophers and cognitive science is being viewed almost solely from the psychology side. In addition, a primary theme running through the conference is that of naturalism in ethics. This concept proposes that morality should be determined by an examination of behaviour: in its crudest form it is a kind of statistical ethic. However interesting this is as a field of philosophical study it has limited utility in the pursuit of morality in the technical realm, since many of the questions in the field are based upon situations which are completely new, and therefore have no behavioral referents. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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The essays in this anthology deal with the growing interconnections between moral philosophy and research that draws upon neuroscience, developmental psychology, and evolutionary biology. This cross- disciplinary interchange coincides, not accidentally, with the renewed interest in ethical naturalism. In order to understand the nature and limits of moral reasoning, many new ethical naturalists look to cognitive science for an account of how people actually reason. At the same time, many cognitive scientists have become increasingly interested in moral reasoning as a complex form of human cognition that challenges their theoretical models. The result of this collaborative, and often critical, interchange is an exciting intellectual ferment at the frontiers of research into human mentality. Sections and Contributors: Ethics Naturalized Owen Flanagan, Mark L. Johnson, Virginia Held Moral Judgments, Representations, and Prototypes Paul M. Churchland, Andy Clark, Peggy DesAutels, Ruth Garrett Millikan Moral Emotions Robert M. Gordon, Alvin I. Goldman, John Deigh, Naomi Scheman Agency and Responsibility James P. Sterba, Susan Khin-Zaw, Helen E. Longino, Michael E. Bratman A Bradford Book