This book offers a provocative analysis of the neuroscience of morality. Written by three leading scholars of science, medicine, and bioethics, it critiques contemporary neuroscientific claims about individual morality and notions of good and evil. Winner of a 2021 prize from the Expanded Reason Institute, it connects moral philosophy to neoliberal 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 do, the popularizers of contemporary 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 Francis Bacon, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and the Chicago School of Economics to uncover a pervasive colonial anthropology at play in the neuroscience of morality today.
The book concludes with a call for a humbler and more constrained neuroscience, informed by a more robust human anthropology that embraces the nobility, beauty, frailties, and flaws in being human.

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Information

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2022

ISBN

9781350288454

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Age of the Brain
Prelude to a Neuroscience of Morality: Of Science and Social Imaginaries
Part I: The Neuroscientific Narrative of Morality
Part II: The Evolution of an Artifactual Being
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index