Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science)

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Editorial: Yale University Press, 2018

0300196288 / 9780300196283

Serie: Libro 3 de 4 - Foundational Questions in Science

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An in-depth analysis of the science of morality and the discourse surrounding it. New hardcover with DJ. Black cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine. Includes authors' notes, bibliography, and index. 289 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 the newest manifestation of that quest. Though claims for its accomplishments are often wildly exaggerated, this new iteration has been no more successful than its predecessors. But rather than giving up in the face of this failure, the new moral science has taken a surprising turn. Whereas earlier efforts sought to demonstrate what is right and wrong, the new moral scientists have concluded, ironically, that right and wrong don't actually exist. Their (perhaps unwitting) moral nihilism turns the science of morality into a social engineering project. If there is nothing moral for science to discover, the science of morality becomes, at best, a feeble program to achieve arbitrary societal goals. Concise and rigorously argued, Science and the Good is a definitive critique of a would-be science that has gained extraordinary influence in public discourse today and an exposé of that project's darker turn. …

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Título
Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (Foundational Questions in Science)
Autor
James Davison Hunter, Paul Nedelisky
Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Estado
New
Sobrecubierta
New
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0300196288
ISBN 13
9780300196283
Serie
Libro 3 de 4: Foundational Questions in Science
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Ethics, Philosophy, STEM: Science

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