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Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values. Until recent times, such issues were primarily fed by the thinking of philosophers, moralists and theologists, or by the findings of historians or sociologists relating to universality or variations in these values within various populations. Science has avoided this field of investigation within the confines of philosophy.
Beyond the temptation to stay away from the field of knowledge science may also have felt itself unconcerned by the study of human values for a simple heuristic reason, namely the lack of tools allowing objective study. For the same reason, researchers tended to avoid the study of feelings or consciousness until, over the past two decades, this became a focus of interest for many neuroscientists.
It is apparent that many questions linked to research in the field of neuroscience are now arising. The hope is that this book will help to formulate them more clearly rather than skirting them. The authors do not wish to launch a new moral philosophy, but simply to gather objective knowledge for reflection.
Table Of Contents:
Creation, art, and the brain1Did evolution fix moral values?11Homo homini lupus? : morality, the social instincts, and our fellow primates17Disorders of social conduct following damage to prefrontal cortices37The neurobiological grounding of human values47Emotion and cognition in moral judgment : evidence from neuroimaging57Neural substrates of affective style and value67Cognitive psychology of moral intuitions91Mirror neuron : a neurological approach to empathy107How does the brain know when it is right?125Cerebral basis of human errors137How a primate brain comes to know some mathematical truths143
| Book: | Neurobiology Of Human Values (Research And Perspectives In Neurosciences) |
| Author: | Antonio Damasio Jean-pierre P. Changeux Wolf J. Singer |
| ISBN: | 3642065740 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783642065743 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-12-15 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Language: | English |
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