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Between the subject and the object there exists a third thing, the community. It is creative like the subject, refractory like the object, and dangerous like an elemental power. ~Ludwik Fleck ## Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction: The Age of the Brain Prelude to a Neuroscience of Morality: Of Science and Social Imaginaries When we began this project in 2010, little did we know that we were embarking on a quest. We began with an original idea that, as with all authentic research and quests, brought us into conversation with unexpected interlocutors, opened new avenues for inquiry, and took us to places we could not have imagined. We set out funded by a grant from the Templeton Foundation's "Science of Virtue" program administered at the University of Chicago. We intended to examine what we saw as four interrelated questions. First, we were intrigued by the rhetoric around poverty and vice in the United States. Second, we wanted to understand emerging findings around poverty and biology to which, we thought, the neurosciences might add helpful depth and precision. Third, we wanted to press the Western virtue tradition, to begin to tease out the as-yet unexamined ways that vir

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Author

Jeffrey P. Bishop; M. Therese Lysaught; Andrew A. Michel (editors)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350288485

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Political Science