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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2009]
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | 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 explanation for these attempts to localise our moral sense. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1282997963 1402063229 9781282997967 9781402063220 |