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Some Good Reason
This is the 21st part of the ‘Neural Is to Moral Ought’ series of posts. The series’s title comes from Joshua Greene’s opinion-piece paper ‘From Neural Is To Moral Ought: What are the moral implications of neuroscientific moral psychology?’ … Continue reading
Anxiety and Well-Being
(This is the twelfth part of the ‘From Neural Is to Moral Ought’ series.) 52: The Dark Room Recall that Part 4 (‘Rules, Hierarchy and Prediction’) considered the merits of ‘rule utilitarianism’ and ‘act utilitarianism’ and proposed a mixture of the two in … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomic Nervous System, eustress, Hans Selye, Karl Friston, Oxytocin, variational free energy
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Caring
(This is the eleventh part of the ‘From Neural Is to Moral Ought’ series.) 47: The Missing Component From what has been said previously: Morality is about balancing the wants of oneself with the wants of others. To do that: 1: We need … Continue reading
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Tagged Mark Johnson, Oxytocin, Patricia Smith Churchland, Peter Unger, Vasopressin
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Headbirths 