UID:
almahu_9949293389102882
Format:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350288478
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9781350288461
Content:
"This provocative analysis by three leading bioethicists criticizes contemporary neuroscientific claims about individual morality and notions of good and evil. It connects moral philosophy to neoclassical economics and successfully challenges the idea that we can locate morality in the brain. Instead of discovering the source of morality in the brain as they claim to, the popularizers of contemporary pop neuroscience are shown to participate in an understanding of human behavior that serves the vested interests of contemporary political economy. Providing evidence that the history of claims about morality and brain function reach back 400 years, the authors locate its genesis in the beginnings of modern philosophy, science, and economics. They further map this trajectory through the economic and moral theories of John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, David Hume, and the Chicago School of Economics to uncover a pervasive colonial anthropology at play in the work of leading neuroscientists today."--
Note:
Includes index.
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Introduction: The Age of the Brain -- Part 1 The Neuroscientific Narrative of Morality. Chapter 1: The Neuroscientific Narrative of Vice ; Chapter 2: The Neuroscientific Narrative of Virtue ; Chapter 3: Popular (Neuro)Science and Other Political Economy Schemes -- Part 2 The Evolution of an Artifactual Being. Chapter 4: The Neoliberal Narrative of Morality ; Chapter 5: Springs of Action and the Political Management of the Poor ; Chapter 6: Bacon, Smith, and the End of Virtue Concluding Un(neuro)scientific Postlude: Between Beasts and Angels -- Index.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350288485
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350288478
URL:
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