Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality - Couverture rigide

Tancredi, Laurence

 
9780521860017: Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality
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ISBN 10 : 0521860016 ISBN 13 : 9780521860017
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings show that the mind and brain are very close, if not the same, and that the brain 'makes' the mind. This is bringing about a change of focus from examining mental activity (mentalism) to the physical activity of the brain (physicalism) to understand thinking and behavior. We are discovering that the physical features of the brain play the major role in shaping our thoughts and emotions, including the way we deal with 'moral' issues. This book sets out the historical framework of the transition from 'mentalism' to 'physicalism', shows how the physical brain works in moral decisions and then examines three broad areas of moral decision-making - the brain in 'bad' acts, the brain in decisions involving sexual relations, and the brain in money decision-making.

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À propos de l?auteur

Laurence R. Tancredi, a psychiatrist-lawyer, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and the author or coauthor of numerous articles and several books on topics in law, ethics and psychiatry, including Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information (1994) and When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View (2004). Tancredi has a private practice in New York City and works as a forensic psychiatric consultant. He has consulted in dozens of legal cases involving a wide variety of psychiatric issues, from the effects of toxic environmental substances on brain function to criminal cases involving assault, rape and homicide.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521860016
ISBN 13 
9780521860017
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521127394 ISBN 13 :  9780521127394
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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