In the book's introduction, author Patricia Churchland makes the case that human conscience can be explained by examining the biological dynamics of social living.
Review of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland. W.W. Norton & Company. 226 pp. $27.95. In deriving foundational principles of morality, Immanuel Kant declared, “the ...
BRAIN-WISE is the one book that sums up the impact of the neurosciences on all the big questions of mind and brain: free will, consciousness, the self and religion. It’s 17 years since ...
If there has ever been a historical moment apt to foster optimism of the intellect, right now would not appear to be it. So it’s heartening to see how much… ...