The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
- Paperback
338 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development, and culture. Evolutionary biologists have shown that mora…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534581 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534584 |
| Author: | Jean Decety, Thalia Wheatley |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 338 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Jean Decety
Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.Thalia Wheatley is Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College.Jesse J. Prinz is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Scott Atran is Research Director in Anthropology at France’s National Center for Scientific Research and Visiting Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is the coeditor, with Douglas Medin, of Folkbiology (MIT Press, 1999).Thalia Wheatley is Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College.Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.
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