Spinoza’s anticipation of contemporary affective neuroscience
Consciousness & Emotion December 31, 2003 Heidi Morrison Ravven
Spinoza speculated on how ethics could emerge from biology and psychology rather than disrupt them and recent evidence suggests he might have gotten it right. His radical deconstruction and reconstruction of ethics is supported by a number of avenues of research in the cognitive and neurosciences. This paper gathers together and presents a composite picture of recent research that supports...