Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930
by
Jan Verplaetse
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
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...