Myth of the Moral Brain
An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it.
Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden age of neuroscience,” laboratory findings claim to offer insights into how the brain “does” morality, even sugge...
An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it.
Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden age of neuroscience,” laboratory findings claim to offer insights into how the brain “does” morality, even sugge...
