
Patricia Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Philosophy Bites
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What Are the Prototypical Cases of Morality?
The origins of what i call the precursors of morality. You seem to be saying that's what morality now is. So you're moving from a description of facts about the past and facts about neuro science to saying how we engage with each other now. What we might want to talk about, just briefly, is what we mean by morality. I may have a slightly looser conception, one which is, again, very dependent on hume. My conception sees social behavior on a spectrum,. so that there is social behavior at one end, which has got to do with etiquette and manners and in which hand you hold your fork. At the other end, you have social practices that
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