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About this book
Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values. Until recent times, such issues were primarily fed by the thinking of philosophers, moralists and theologists, or by the findings of historians or sociologists relating to universality or variations in these values within various populations. Science has avoided this field of investigation within the confines of philosophy.
Beyond the temptation to stay away from the field of knowledge science may also have felt itself unconcerned by the study of human values for a simple heuristic reason, namely the lack of tools allowing objective study. For the same reason, researchers tended to avoid the study of feelings or consciousness until, over the past two decades, this became a focus of interest for many neuroscientists.
It is apparent that many questions linked to research in the field of neuroscience are now arising. The hope is that this book will help to formulate them more clearly rather than skirting them. The authors do not wish to launch a new moral philosophy, but simply to gather objective knowledge for reflection.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurobiology of Human Values
Editors: Jean-Pierre Changeux, Antonio R. Damasio, Wolf Singer, Yves Christen
Series Title: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29803-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-26253-4Published: 29 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06574-3Published: 21 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29803-8Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0945-6082
Series E-ISSN: 2196-3096
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 159
Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences