The Moral Brain

By Jelle Schrijver, Jan Verplaetse, Sven Vanneste

Book Overview

Introduction - Jan Verplaetse, Johan Braeckman, Jelle De Schrijver The Immoral Brain - Andrea L. Glenn & Adrian Raine 'Extended Attachment' and the Human Brain: internalized cultural values and evolutionary implications - Jorge Moll & Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza Neuro-cognitive Systems Involved in Moral Reasoning - James Blair Empathy and Morality: Integrating social and neuroscience approaches - Jean Decety & 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 - Kristin Prehn & Hauke R. Heekeren Moral Dysfunction: theoretical model and potential neurosurgical treatments - Dirk De Ridder, Berthold Langguth, Mark Plazier & Tomas Menovsky Does it Pay to be Good? Competing evolutionary explanations of pro-social behaviour - Matthijs van Veelen How can Evolution and Neuroscience Help us Understand Moral Capacities? - Randolph Nesse Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism - Randolph Nesse The Evolved Brain: Understanding Religious Ethics and Religious Violence - John Teehan An Evolutionary and Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Moral Modularity - Jelle De Schrijver

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400791291
• ISBN13: 9789400791299
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"