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Moving Beyond Dichotomies: Liao, S. Matthew (ed.), Moral brains: the neuroscience of morality, Oxford University Press, 2016

Gonzalez-Cabrera, Ivan (2017) Moving Beyond Dichotomies: Liao, S. Matthew (ed.), Moral brains: the neuroscience of morality, Oxford University Press, 2016. [Preprint]

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Matthew Liao’s edited collection Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality covers a wide range of issues in moral psychology. The collection should be of interest to philosophers, psychologist, and neuroscientists alike, particularly those interested in the relation between these disciplines. I give an overview of the content and major themes of the volume and draw some important lessons about the connection between moral neuroscience and normative ethics. In particular, I argue that moving beyond some of the dichotomies implicit in some of the debates advanced in the book makes the neuroscience of moral judgments much more useful in advancing normative ethics.


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Gonzalez-Cabrera, Ivanivan.gonzalez-cabrera@anu.edu.au0000-0002-6523-5471
Keywords: Dual-process theory; moral judgments; moral neuroscience; moral psychology; moral reasoning; normative ethics
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Dr. Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2017 16:48
Last Modified: 27 May 2019 10:38
Item ID: 13408
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date: 4 September 2017
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13408

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