Localizing the Moral Sense
Jan Verplaetse
Gebundenes Buch

Localizing the Moral Sense

Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

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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 - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm.How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the enceph...