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A lively panel discussion between Sam Harris, Patricia Smith Churchland, Peter Singer, Lawrence Krauss, Simon Blackburn, Steven Pinker, and Roger Bingham. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong?
Books by Steven Pinker:
|The Stuff of Thought, 2008||The Language Instinct, 2007||The Blank Slate, 2003|
Books by Patricia Churchland:
|Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality||Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy||Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain|
Books by Lawrence Krauss:
|Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's |
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