Overview
- Cutting-edge research in moral psychology
- Crossover between different disciplines, including evolutionary psychology and neurology
- A very broad collection of perspectives by a number of excellent scientists
- New perspectives on the moral brain with possible implications for criminology, philosophy and moral education
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical equipment to unravel specific brain processes enabling moral cognition. In addition, evolutionary psychologists have formulated hypotheses about the origins and nature of our moral architecture. Little by little, the concept of a ‘moral brain’ is reinstated.
As the crossover between disciplines focusing on moral cognition was rather limited up to now, this book aims at filling the gap. Which evolutionary biological hypotheses provide a useful framework for starting new neurological research? How can brain imaging be used to corroborate hypotheses concerning the evolutionary background of our species?
In this reader, a broad range of prominent scientists and philosophers shed their expert view on the current accomplishments and future challenges in the field of moral cognition and assess how cooperation between neurology and evolutionary psychology can boost research into the field of the moral brain.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Moral Brain
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality
Editors: Jan Verplaetse, Jelle Schrijver, Sven Vanneste, Johan Braeckman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6287-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6286-5Published: 05 September 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9129-9Published: 12 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6287-2Published: 21 August 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 275
Topics: Neurosciences, Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, general, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind