The Moral Brain Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Verplaetse, Jan (Editor), Schrijver, Jelle (Editor), Vanneste, Sven (Editor), Braeckman, Johan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy of mind.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Evolutionary biology.; Biomedicine.; Evolutionary Biology.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Philosophy of Mind.

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 hy...

Table of Contents:

• The Immoral Brain
• “Extended Attachment” and the Human Brain: Internalized Cultural Values and Evolutionary Implications
• Neuro-Cognitive Systems Involved in Moral Reasoning
• Empathy and Morality: Integrating Social and Neuroscience Approaches
• Moral Judgment and the Brain: A Functional Approach to the Question of Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment Integrating Psychology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology
• Moral Dysfunction: Theoretical Model and Potential Neurosurgical Treatments
• Does It Pay to be Good? Competing Evolutionary Explanations of Pro-Social Behaviour
• How Can Evolution and Neuroscience Help Us Understand Moral Capacities?
• Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism
• The Evolved Brain: Understanding Religious Ethics and Religious Violence
• An Evolutionary and Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Moral Modularity.