PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Carburetor, Neurology
18 Apr 2016
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Instead what has developed is our intelligence (p162: origin, adaptive value, function, purpose, what is does. This in some ways makes matters worseit shows us many desirable thingsbut in compensation, it does help us arbitrate (p162) Why neurology cannot replace moral philosophy (p162-168: think of reduction, what if neurology reduces reason, the traditional business of moral philosophy is to harmonize the claims arising from the, wilson: different sides of our nature (162) The time has come to ethics to be biologized (162) Let us, cannibalize psychology and set first principles for sociology (163) Explain ethics and ethical philosophers, if not epistemology and epistemologists, at all depths . How do we reduce their reasoning brain works. Wilson makes it all a job for neurologists as midgley put it to how their brain works. Midgley calls wilson"s project a romantic fantasy . As a test of this, try substituting each item the words mathematics and mathematical for ethics and ethical (163)
