Beyond Beliefe 2008 -23- Patricia Churchland 2-2

Patricia Churchland
This is Your Brain on Morality
Date: October 4, 2008
Speakers: Patricia Churchland
Topics: Altruism, Morality, Neural Receptors, Oxytocin, Society, This is Your Brain on Morality, Vole

Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President's Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice, responsibility and the basis of moral norms in terms of brain function, evolution and brain-culture interactions. Her books include Brain-Wise, Neurophilosophy: Towrds a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain and On the Contrary, with Paul M. Churchland.

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