Localising the moral sense : neuroscience and search for cerebral seat of morality, 1800-1930 / Jan Verplaetse.
Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or 'moral insanity', renowned neurologists had the nerve to make their speculations public. This book presents an overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality and offers an exp...
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Table of Contents:
- 1 The New Shapes of the Old Conscience 1
- Conscientia, Syneidesis, Synderesis 1
- The Philosophical Assault on Conscience 4
- Conscience as Moral Sense 6
- Conscience as Moral Faculty 9
- Moral Sense and Moral Faculty in France 11
- Conscience as Instinct 13
- The Influence of Darwin and Spencer 15
- French Positivism and Naturalism 18
- Conscience During the fin de siecle 21
- The New Instinct Theory in England and America 24
- The End of Physical Metaphors? 27
- 2 Conscientiousness or the Moral Organ in Phrenology 29
- Dieu et cerveau, rien que Dieu et cerveau 30
- Phrenological Societies 33
- The Criminal Antihero 36
- The Moral Organ 39
- Felix Voisin 44
- Phrenology as Occultism 46
- The German Alternative 49
- 3 The Experimental Neurology of the Moral Centre 55
- The New Localisation Doctrine from the 1860s Onwards 55
- A Physiological Explanation of Will Power 57
- The Flourishing of the Experimental Tradition in Germany 61
- Eduard Hitzig 62
- David Ferrier 64
- Friedrich Goltz 68
- Leonardo Bianchi 71
- The Dissection of Morality 73
- Broca's Thermometer 73
- Lombroso's Letter 75
- Mosso's Longing to Penetrate the Inner Life of Nerve Cells 75
- The Galvanic Dream of Fleischl von Marxov 78
- 4 The Clinical Neurology of the Moral Centre 83
- Acquired Moral Insanity 83
- Traumas 84
- Tumours 86
- Paul Schuster's Magisterial Review 89
- Welt's Daring Localisation 91
- Abuse of Healthy Progress 94
- The Hypothesis of a Cortical Centre of the Moral Sense 96
- William Browning's Localisation 98
- Penetrating Traumas of the Frontal Lobes 103
- Morally Insane Great War Veterans 104
- German Exceptions 107
- Karl Kleist and the Localisation of the Gemeinschafts-Ich 109
- Grey, My Friend, Is All Theory, but Green Is the Golden Tree of Life 114
- 5 The Microscopy and Endocrinology of the Moral Centre 117
- A Time-Consuming Chore 117
- Theodor Meynert's Model 119
- Criminal Brains in Slices 121
- Campbell's Lecture in the Shadow of Lantern Slides 122
- Paul Flechsig's Rectorial Address 124
- To the Somaesthetic Region and Back 129
- An Ethical Aristocracy 132
- The Revenants of Arthur Van Gehuchten 133
- Hormones, Autocoids and Homeostasis 136
- Constantin Von Monakow's Syneidesis 138
- Cain's Endocrinological Mark 141
- 6 The Localisation of Morality in Criminal Anthropology 145
- Apelike Thumbs 145
- The Rise of Criminal Anthropology 146
- The French and German Responses to Lombroso's Born Criminal 148
- The Remorseless Criminal 152
- The Location of the Absent Moral Sense 154
- Neanderthal Versus Cro-Magnon 158
- Moritz Benedikt's Three Lectures 159
- The More Man Possesses a Moral Organ, the More Apelike His Brain Becomes (Meynert) 164
- Seelenkunde (1895) or Benedikt's Second Localisation of Morality 165
- Benedikt as Freethinker 167
- The Criminal's Brain Tissue 171
- Luigi Roncoroni 174
- Lamina Granularis Interna 177
- Encounters in Alexandersbad 180
- Lamina Pyramidalis 182
- Moral Association Chains 187
- 7 Moral Insanity as a Disorder of the Moral Sense 191
- Benjamin Rush: Anomia and Micronomia 192
- Pinel and Esquirol: Mania and Monomania 193
- James Cowles Prichard: Moral Insanity 194
- Inhibitory Insanity in England 196
- Towards an Ethical Interpretation 198
- The Ethical Interpretation of Moral Insanity in Germany 200
- The "psychopathische Personlichkeit" and the "pervers instinctif" 203
- A Psychological Misnomer (Cyril Burt) 205
- The Influence of the Localisation Doctrine 207
- There is Only Empty Space 213
- No Radical Localisations of Moral Insanity 216
- 8 Encephalitis Lethargica: A Brain Disease of the Moral Sense? 219
- The 1915-1927 Epidemic Encephalitis Pandemic 219
- Personality Disorders 223
- Postencephalitic Moral Insanity 228
- The Cortical Localisation of the Montpellier School 233
- Karl Bonhoeffer's Konkordanz 236
- Postencephalitic Moral Insanity Under the Microscope 238
- Jean Camus' Centres Regulateurs 239
- 9 Conclusion-Localising the Moral Sense: Believers and Disbelievers 243
- An Exceptional Phenomenon 243
- The Frustration of the Neuropsychiatrist 248
- The Frustration of the Forensic Psychiatrist 253
- The Voice in the Blood 258.