Moral brains : the neuroscience of morality / S. Matthew Liao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liao, S. Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive neuroscience.

Neurosciences--Social aspects.

Neurosciences.

Human information processing.

Emotions.

Mental Processes.

Morals.

Cognitive Neuroscience.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Processes.

Morals.

Emotions.

Cognitive Neuroscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Other Title:

Neuroscience of morality

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Many people, including a number of philosophers, believe that results from neuroscience have the potential to settle or at least move seemingly intractable debates concerning the nature, practice, and reliability of moral judgments. This has led to a flurry of scientific and philosophical activities, resulting in the rapid growth of the new field of moral neuroscience. This volume is the first to take stock of 15 years of research in this fast-growing field of moral neuroscience and to recommend future directions for research. It features the most up-to-date research in this area, and it presents a wide variety of perspectives from some of the most significant figures in philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology.

Contents:

Part I: Emotion Versus Reason

Sentimentalism and the moral brain / Jesse Prinz

The rationalist delusion? A post hoc investigation / Jeanette Kennett and Philip Gerrans

Emotion versus cognition in moral decision-making: a dubious dichotomy / James Woodward

Part II: Deonotology Versus Consequentialism

Beyond point-and-shoot morality: why cognitive (neuro)science matters for ethics / Joshua D. Greene

The limits of the dual-process view / Julia Driver

Getting moral wrongness into the picture / Stephen Darwall

Reply to Driver and Darwall / Joshua D. Greene

Part III: New Methods in moral Neuroscience

Emotional learning, psychopathy, and norm development / R.J.R. Blair, Soonjo Hwang, Stuart F. White, and Harma Meffert

The neuropsychiatry of moral cognition and social conduct / Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Roland Zahn, and Jorge Moll

Morphing morals: neurochemical modulation of moral judgment and behavior / Molly J. Crockett

Of mice and men: the influence of rodent models of empathy on human models of harm prevention / Jana Schaich Borg

Part IV: Philosophical Lessons

Is, ought and the brain / Guy Kahane

Are intuitions heuristics? / S. Matthew Liao

The disunity of morality / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 5, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-935769-2