Mind and Morals: Essays on Cognitive Science and Ethics

The essays in this anthology deal with the growing interconnections between moralphilosophy and research that draws upon neuroscience, developmental psychology, and evolutionarybiology. This cross- disciplinary interchange coincides, not accidentally, with the renewed interestin ethical naturalism.In order to understand the nature and limits of moral reasoning, many newethical naturalists look to cognitive science for an account of how people actually reason. At thesame time, many cognitive scientists have become increasingly interested in moral reasoning as acomplex form of human cognition that challenges their theoretical models. The result of thiscollaborative, and often critical, interchange is an exciting intellectual ferment at the frontiersof research into human mentality.Sections and Contributors :Ethics NaturalizedOwen Flanagan, Mark L.Johnson, Virginia HeldMoral Judgments, Representations, and PrototypesPaul M. Churchland, AndyClark, Peggy DesAutels, Ruth Garrett MillikanMoral EmotionsRobert M. Gordon, Alvin I. Goldman, JohnDeigh, Naomi SchemanAgency and ResponsibilityJames P. Sterba, Susan Khin-Zaw, Helen E. Longino,Michael E. BratmanA Bradford Book

Edward D. Mansfield is Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Power, Trade, and War and International Conflict and the Global Economy.