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Topic: New free book from Information Age Education
Posted by: David Moursund
Date/Time: 2013/6/24 23:45:43

Here is a new free 48-page book published by Information Age Education. It focuses on two important areas of cognitive neuroscience research: consciousness and morality. Both topics are very important in education.
Sylwester, R. and Moursund, D., eds. (June 2013). Consciousness and Morality: Recent Research Developments. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Microsoft Word file: http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/250-consciousness-and-morality-recent-research-developments.html. PDF file: http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/251-consciousness-and-morality-recent-research-developments.html.
Morality is a human issue because we're a social species. Researchers thus wondered if morality emerged when social mammals discovered the values of cooperative behavior, or sometime after humans arrived. Two widely held historic beliefs are that moral behavior:
1. Is inspired by deities, and/or
2. Requires the rational level of mind that only humans have.
Chapters 1-4 synthesize recent biological conscious research and chapters 5-6 biological morality research. Chapter 7 presents the alternate historical philosophical and theological perspective of consciousness and morality. The scholars whose work is synthesized don't necessarily agree with each other, but that's all right. Collegial disagreements tend to move a field forward.
Many other free educational materials from Information Age Education can be accessed at http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. I hope that you will enjoy these materials and help your colleagues learn about them.

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