The Moral Brain Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspec
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,
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Jan Verplaetse · Jelle De Schrijver · Sven Vanneste · Johan Braeckman Editors
The Moral Brain Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality
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Editors Jan Verplaetse Ghent University Universiteitstraat 4 9000 Gent Belgium [email protected] Sven Vanneste University Hospital Antwerp Dept. Neurosurgery Wilrijkstraat 10 2650 Edegem Belgium [email protected]
Jelle De Schrijver Ghent University Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent Belgium [email protected] Johan Braeckman Ghent University Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent Belgium [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4020-6286-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6287-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-6287-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926809 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan Verplaetse, Johan Braeckman and Jelle De Schrijver
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The Immoral Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine “Extended Attachment” and the Human Brain: Internalized Cultural Values and Evolutionary Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Jorge Moll and Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza Neuro-Cognitive Systems Involved in Moral Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 James Blair Empathy and Morality: Integrating Social and Neuroscience Approaches . 109 Jean Decety and C. Daniel Batson Moral Judgment and the Brain: A Functional Approach to the Question of Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment Integrating Psychology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Kristin Prehn and Hauke R. Heekeren Moral Dysfunction: Theoretical Model and Potential Neurosurgical Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Dirk De Ridder, Berthold Langguth, Mark Plazier, and Tomas Menovsky Does It Pay to be Good? Competing Evolutionary Explanations of Pro-Social Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Matthijs van Veelen How Can Evolution and Neuroscience Help Us Understand Moral Capacities? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Randolph M. Nesse v
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