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...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 201 - 221 |
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