Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

by Mark Johnson

Book Overview

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist philosophical framework in Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science, Mark Johnson argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022632494X
• ISBN13: 9780226324944
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"