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Biopolitics After Neuroscience - Morality and the Economy of Virtue (Hardcover)
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Biopolitics After Neuroscience - Morality and the Economy of Virtue (Hardcover)
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This book offers a provocative analysis of the neuroscience of
morality. Written by three leading scholars of science, medicine,
and bioethics, it critiques contemporary neuroscientific claims
about individual morality and notions of good and evil. Winner of a
2021 prize from the Expanded Reason Institute, it connects moral
philosophy to neoliberal economics and successfully challenges the
idea that we can locate morality in the brain. Instead of
discovering the source of morality in the brain as they claim to
do, the popularizers of contemporary neuroscience are shown to
participate in an understanding of human behavior that serves the
vested interests of contemporary political economy. Providing
evidence that the history of claims about morality and brain
function reach back 400 years, the authors locate its genesis in
the beginnings of modern philosophy, science, and economics. They
further map this trajectory through the economic and moral theories
of Francis Bacon, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and
the Chicago School of Economics to uncover a pervasive colonial
anthropology at play in the neuroscience of morality today. The
book concludes with a call for a humbler and more constrained
neuroscience, informed by a more robust human anthropology that
embraces the nobility, beauty, frailties, and flaws in being human.
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