Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

by Paul Nedelisky and James Davison Hunter

Book Overview

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral

In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E. O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haidt, and Joshua Greene is only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300196288
• ISBN13: 9780300196283
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"