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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Verplaetse, Jan. (Editor), de Schrijver, Jelle. (Editor), Vanneste, Sven. (Editor), Braeckman, Johan. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6287-2
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.