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Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality
Laurence Tancredi
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Description for Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality
paperback. This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JMC; JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521127394
SKU
V9780521127394
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About Laurence Tancredi
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality
'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 ... Read more