BKMNDMRL.RVW 960220 "Mind and Morals", May/Friedman/Clark, 1996, 0-262-63165-2, U$20.00 %A Larry May %A Marilyn Friedman %A Andy Clark %C 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 %D 1996 %G 0-262-63165-2 %I MIT Press %O U$20.00 curtin@mit.edu %P 315 %T "Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science" The papers presented in the book come from a conference on Mind and Morals held at Washington University in St. Louis during 1994. The emphasis on cognitive science should not mislead technical readers: the presenters are all philosophers and cognitive science is being viewed almost solely from the psychology side. In addition, a primary theme running through the conference is that of naturalism in ethics. This concept proposes that morality should be determined by an examination of behaviour: in its crudest form it is a kind of statistical ethic. However interesting this is as a field of philosophical study it has limited utility in the pursuit of morality in the technical realm, since many of the questions in the field are based upon situations which are completely new, and therefore have no behavioral referents. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKMNDMRL.RVW 960220 ====================== roberts@decus.ca rslade@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca rslade@cyberstore.ca Why did the chicken cross the Moebius Strip? To get to the other.. um.. er.. Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94663-2 (800-SPRINGER)