Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory Arvan Marcus
Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory Arvan Marcus Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. This book aims…
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Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory Arvan Marcus
Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. This book aims to forge a bold new path forward, outlining a theory of prudence and morality that unifies a wide variety of findings in neuroscience with philosophically sophisticated normative theorizing.The author summarizes the emerging behavioral neuroscience of prudence and morality, showing how human moral and prudential cognition and motivation are known to involve over a dozen brain regions and capacities. Few clear answers have emerged, however, in large part because of the inherently speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods.
The result demonstrates how this theory coheres with and explains the behavioral He then outlines a detailed philosophical theory of prudence and morality based on neuroscience and lived human experience.