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June 4, 2012adam smith, empathy, ethics, freedom, hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, liberty, moral philosophy, moral psychology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, spontaneous orders

Morals and markets

Sandel plugging his latest. The journalist’s quote below has much resonance to me. Even to a toddler’s mind, the logic of the transaction was evidently clear – if he had to be bribed, then the potty couldn’t be a good idea – and within a week he had grown so suspicious and upset that we…

June 4, 2012Andrew Sneddon, Embedded, enaction, enactivism, ethics, extended mind, externalism, hume, kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology

Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology

A recent book in the EM genre. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindMoral psychologyMoral responsibilitymoralityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychologySocial Sciences

January 30, 2012conservatism, David Eagleman, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Jesse Prinz, liberalism, moral philosophy, moral psychology, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, plasticity, political philosophy, roger scruton, Susan Greenfield

Nature, nurture and liberal values

Roger Scruton weighs in on the nature/nurture debate via a threefold review. (Image another Steve Pyke portrait). Roger Scrutonsteve pyke

January 27, 2012brain, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, Eliminative Materialism, folk psychology, moral philosophy, moral psychology, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, patricia churchland, paul churchland, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science

Patricia Churchland

Having missed Pat Churchland’s talk at NEI this past October, it was great that she was in town for a full week of speaking engagements not to mention interviews and other demands being made on her time (and she is supposedly retired!). It was a pleasure to meet her (finally!) having followed her work over the…

October 14, 2011adam smith, empathy, hume, Jesse Prinz, moral philosophy, moral psychology, sympathy

Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

Check out this volume about to be released. Here is Jesse Prinz’ contribution “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?“

September 16, 2011adam smith, mirror neurons, moral psychology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, Nicolas Baumard, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, sympathy, The theory of moral sentiments, wealth of nations

Adam Smith and Mirror Neurons

It is wonderful at last to see the Adam Smith of The theory of moral sentiments rather than The wealth of nations finally getting some attention. Smith’s moral psychology is amazingly presient. Here is one of the better articles by the very talented Nicolas Baumard making the connection.