Virtue ethicist and ancient philosopher Rachana Kamtekar, who is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, explores what cognitive science has learned about the modular nature of the mind and what that might tell us about virtue, as understood by Aristotle and...
Published 03/19/10
Stephen Pope, professor of theology at Boston College, explains moral theology and how neuroscience can help the Church to better understand and respond to human behavior. He draws an analogy of the Magisterium, the teaching authority of the Catholic Church, to the interpreter of the brain,...
Published 03/19/10
Jeanette Kennett, Jeanette Kennett, a professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, uses psychopathy as a litmus test in the meta-ethical debate of rationalism versus sentimentalism. Are they mutually exclusive? While the impairment of emotional processing and the lack of...
Published 03/19/10