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DEFENDING ETHICAL NATURALISM: THE ROLES OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PRAGMATISM.

In various essays, Paul Churchland explores the relevance of studies in cognitive science to issues in ethics. What emerges is a kind of ethical naturalism that has two components. The first component is a descriptive-genealogical one whose purpose is to explain how people come to have their ethical...

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Published in:Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 201 - 221
Main Author: Ward, Andrew
Format: Article
Published: Open Library of Humanities Mar2005
Subjects:
Naturalism
Materialism
Ethics
Positivism
Cognitive science
Pragmatism
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