Conscience : the origins of moral intuition
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
171.6/CHURCHLAND,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781324000891, 1324000899 :, 9781324000891 (hardcover), 1324000899 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Wired to care -- The snuggle for survival -- Getting attached -- Learning and getting along -- Norms and values -- I'm just that way -- Conscience and its anomalies -- What's love got to do with it? -- The practical side
Draws on social behavior and twin studies to explore how moral systems arise from the physical self in combination with environmental demands, evaluating whether people have a predisposition to adopt specific ethics