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 -...

Table of Contents:

• The New Shapes of the Old Conscience
• Conscientiousness or the Moral Organ in Phrenology
• The Experimental Neurology of the Moral Centre
• The Clinical Neurology of the Moral Centre
• The Microscopy and Endocrinology of the Moral Centre
• The Localisation of Morality in Criminal Anthropology
• Moral Insanity as a Disorder of the Moral Sense
• Encephalitis Lethargica: A Brain Disease of the Moral Sense?
• Conclusion—Localising the Moral Sense: Believers and Disbelievers.