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Brain 2006 129(5):1339-1342; doi:10.1093/brain/awl091
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At an ethics seminar in Oxford back in the mid-1960s, the eminent philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe declared, ‘It's going to be difficult to do ethics until contemporary psychology completes its project’. Being an ardent disciple of Wittgenstein, she was convinced that the soul, the seat of moral agency, was not a ‘ghost in the machine’, but embodied, and indeed ‘embrained’. She was aware, moreover, that knowledge of how the brain, and the body, relates to the mind was on the move. Had she been able to forecast the enormous strides in neuroscience and genetics in the decades ahead she would certainly have included those disciplines within the realms of what she . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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