Format:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 275 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781402062865
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Science at the Edge of Science Fiction; The Moral Brain: A New Climate A New Technique; The Breakthroughs; There is No Moral Center; Each Moral Task Has Its Own Neural Network; Engineering the Moral Brain; The Immoral Brain; Prospects and Limits; Morality and Evolution; Indirect Reciprocity and Strong Reciprocity; Towards a Deep History of Human Morality; A Misleading Analogy?; The Importance of Brain Imaging; Plan of the Book; Conclusion; References; The Immoral Brain; The Evolution of Moral Behavior; The Prisoners Dilemma Model of Social Interactions
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The Neurobiology of Morality and Social EmotionsThe Evolution of Immoral Behavior; The Neurobiology of Immoral
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Neuro-Cognitive Systems Involved in Moral ReasoningThe Development of Morality; Morality as a Unitary System; Multiple Moralities; The Development of Care-Based Morality; Reciprocity; Disgust-Based Morality; Social Convention; Theory of Mind and Morality; Theory of Mind and Social Convention; Summary; Empathy and Morality: Integrating Social and Neuroscience Approaches; Evolutionary Origins of Empathy; Shared Neural Circuits Between Self and Other; Perspective-Taking, Self-Other Awareness, and Empathy; Modulation of Empathic Responding; Empathy and Morality; Conclusion; References
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Moral Judgment and the Brain: A Functional Approach to the Question of Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment Integrating Psychology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary BiologyTwo Competing Psychological Models on Moral Judgment Moral Reasoning from a Cognitive-Developmental Perspective; The Role of Emotions and Intuitive Feelings in Moral Judgment; The Neuroscientific Study of Moral Judgment; Lesion Studies Provide First Evidence for a Neurobiological Basis of Morality; Some Methodological Considerations on Imaging Brain Activity
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A Distributed Functional Network of Brain Regions Activated During Moral JudgmentNeuroimaging Studies with a Focus on Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment; Evidence for Competing Emotional and Cognitive Subsystems During Dilemmatic Moral Judgments; The Influence of Bodily Harm on Neural Correlates of Moral Decision Making; The Influence of Individual Differences in Moral Judgment Competence on Neural Correlates of Moral Judgment; A Functional Approach to Moral Judgment Integrating Psychological Models, Neuroscientific Results, and Evolutionary Biology; References
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Moral Dysfunction: Theoretical Model and Potential Neurosurgical Treatments
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781402062872
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781402062865
Additional Edition:
Print version The Moral Brain Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality
Language:
English
Keywords:
Moral
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Evolution
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Neurowissenschaften
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-6287-2
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