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Record Nr.

UNINA9910772100503321

Autore

Arvan Marcus

Titolo

Neurofunctional prudence and morality : a philosophical theory / / Marcus Arvan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-000-75151-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge focus on philosophy

Disciplina

179.9

Soggetti

Prudence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, however, in large part because of the inherently speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods. 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. He then outlines a detailed philosophical theory of prudence based on neuroscience and lived human experience. The result demonstrates how this theory of prudence and morality outlined coheres with and explains the behavioral neuroscience, showing how each brain region and capacity interacts to give rise to prudential and moral behavior. Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory will be of interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology, neuroethics, and decision theory"--