| 书目名称 | Localizing the Moral Sense | | 副标题 | Neuroscience and the | | 编辑 | Jan Verplaetse | | 视频video | | | 概述 | First book on this topic.Based on first-hand material (original medical publications in French, German, Italian and English).Well-written, depth and clarity | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or “moral insanity” (psychopathy) even renowned and outstanding neurologists, including Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Oskar Vogt or Constantin von Monakow, had the nerve to make their speculations public. This book presents the first overview of believers and disb | | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | | 关键词 | History; Localization; Morality, Moral Sense; Neurology; Neuroscience; insanity; morality | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6322-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9126-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6322-0 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |
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