March 21, 2008

Utilitarianism and the Brain
By Guy Kahane

Everybody’s heard about Joshua Greene’s fMRI studies of moral judgement. Many have also heard about the study by Koenigs, Young, Adolphs, Cushman, Tranel, Cushman, Hauser and Damasio of patients with prefrontal damage. In a communication I co-authored with Nick Shackel and which has just come out in Nature, we criticise the methodology used in these studies.

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Posted on March 21, 2008 at 10:49 pm in Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Guy Kahane's Posts, Neuroscience of Morality | 2 Comments