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PREMIUM-Episode 41: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume's Ethics)
Published 15 years, 2 months ago
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Patricia Churchland on her new book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. We also discussed David Hume's ethics as foundational to her work, reading his Treatise on Human Nature (1739), Book III, Part I and his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), Section V, Parts I and II.