Neurobiology of Human Values
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
| Series: | Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Creation, Art, and the Brain
- Did Evolution Fix Human Values?
- Homo homini lupus? Morality, the Social Instincts, and our Fellow Primates
- Disorders of Social Conduct Following Damage to Prefrontal Cortices
- The Neurobiological Grounding of Human Values
- Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment: Evidence from Neuroimaging
- Neural substrates of affective style and value
- Cognitive Psychology of Moral Intuitions
- Mirror neuron: a neurological approach to empathy
- How does the brain know when it is right?
- Cerebral basis of human errors
- How a Primate Brain Comes to Know Some Mathematical Truths