Laurence Tancredi

Hardwired Behavior

What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780521127394
• ISBN-10: 0521127394
• Artikelnr.: 30365857

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Neuroscience and morality
2. Morality and the mind
3. Beyond the mind zone
4. Morality and the brain
5. Bad without conscience
6. Biology of choice
7. Sex and the single moral code
8. Brain biology and sex
9. Deception
10. The biology of money
11. The bad and the mad
12. Creating a moral brain
Glossary
Notes
Index.

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Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Neuroscience and morality; 2. Morality and the mind; 3. Beyond the mind zone; 4. Morality and the brain; 5. Bad without conscience; 6. Biology of choice; 7. Sex and the single moral code; 8. Brain biology and sex; 9. Deception; 10. The biology of money; 11. The bad and the mad; 12. Creating a moral brain; Glossary; Notes; Index.

Rezensionen

'No one writes as well about these topics as Laurence Tancredi - he is versed in history, philosophy and legal thought with a sophisticated background and understanding of the neurosciences. In this book Dr Tancredi expertly guides the reader through the complex issues of free will and morality and what new insights are gained through discoveries in the science of the brain.' Myrna Weissman, Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, College of Physician and Surgeons, Columbia University