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In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Many people, including a number of philosophers, believe that results from neuroscience have the potential to settle seemingly intractable debates concerning the nature, practice, and reliability of moral judgments. This has led to a flurry of
scientific and philosophical activities, resulting in the rapid growth of the new field of moral neuroscience. There is now a vast array of ongoing scientific research devoted towards understanding the neural correlates of moral judgments, accompanied by a large philosophical literature aimed at
interpreting and examining the methodology and the results of this research. This is the first volume to take stock of fifteen years of research of this fast-growing field of moral neuroscience and to recommend future directions for research. It features the most up-to-date research in this area, and it presents a wide variety of perspectives on this topic.

Contents:

Contributors

Morality and Neuroscience: Past and Future S. Matthew Liao

Part I: Emotion vs. Reason
1. Sentimentalism and the Moral Brain Jesse Prinz
2. The Rationalist Delusion? A Post Hoc Investigation Jeanette Kennett and Philip Gerrans
3. Emotion versus Cognition in Moral Decision-Making: A Dubious Dichotomy James Woodward

Part II: Deonotology vs. Consequentialism
4. Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)Science Matters for Ethics Joshua Greene
5. The Limits of the Dual-Process View Julia Driver
6. Getting Moral Wrongness into the Picture Stephen Darwall
7. Reply to Driver and Darwall Joshua Greene

Part III: New Methods in Moral Neuroscience
8. Emotional Learning, Psychopathy, and Norm Development James Blair, Soonjo Hwang, Stuart F. White, and Harma Meffert
9. The Neuropsychiatry of Moral Cognition and Social Conduct Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Roland Zahn, and Jorge Moll
10. Morphing Morals: Neurochemical Modulations of Moral Judgment and Behavior Molly Crockett
11. Of Mice and Men: The Influence of Rodent Models of Empathy on Human Models of Harm Prevention Jana Schaich Borg

Part IV: Philosophical Lessons
12. Is, Ought and the Brain Guy Kahane
13. Are Intuitions Heuristics? S. Matthew Liao
14. The Disunity of Morality Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Index