Thursday, June 23, 2011

Patricia Churchland, today's featured scientific run-amok-ery: a woman Philosopher!!

Her E-Harmony Pix
She is a neuroscientist (no problem there) and a philosopher (what? a woman philosopher!!) who has long held that morality is programmed into us neurologically. Any moral philosophy which ignores that item, is hogwash, or as she puts it (like only a philosopher can) "vacuous".   She then goes on to use a science word to explain our moral behavior - "its Hardwired".  She is Canadian which explains some of this.  I hope her husband doesn't read this.  He might pop me one.

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