Ethical Know-How
Subtitle: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780804730334
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy; Science; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Knowledge, Theory of; Ethics
Description: This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgement but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject, or a soul.

In summation, the author proposes an ethics founded on "savoir faire" that is a practice of transformation based on a constant recognition of the "virtual" nature of ourselves in the actual operations of our mental lives.