New book: ‘The Emotional Construction of Morals’ by Jesse Prinz
Written on January 6, 2008
The Emotional Construction of Morals
From the book description: “Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection.”
author’s website, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
excerpts (24 p pdf draft)
article “The Emotional Basis of Moral Judgments,” Philosophical Explorations, March 2006 (16 p pdf)
Filed in: culture,new books,philosophy of mind,psychology.
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