Localising the Moral Sense Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality /

• Main Author: Verplaetse, Jan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: History.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy and science.; Medicine > History.; Neuropsychology.; Psychology.; History of Science.; General Psychology.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Medicine.

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "moral brain" became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality -...