Utilitarianism and the Brain

Guy Kahane and Nicholas Shackel have a new paper out in Nature that criticizes recent neuroscientific work on moral judgment and utilitarian bias.  One of their stalking horses is a paper by Koenigs et al. that also appeared recently in Nature.  The original Koenigs et al. paper can be found here and their reply to the Kahane and Shackel piece can be found here. 

If you want to see a truncated version of the line taken by Kahane and Shackel, head over to Ethics Etc. for an ongoing discussion here.  While you're there, you might want to participate in the reading group on Appiah's latest book as well!

Comments

[Anibal]

I have, for those without suscription to the journal, the arising commentary made by Kahane and Shackel to the original article (Koenigs et al. 2007), and Koenigs reply to them; in my blog in a copy and paste like-form with strong bold (sorry, for the unusual and weird method!)