In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience. This is the first volume to take stock of fifteen years of research of this fast-growing field of moral neuroscience and recommend future directions for research.

• Contributors


• Morality and Neuroscience: Past and Future


• S. Matthew Liao


• PART I: EMOTIONS 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: DEONTOLOGY 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

S. Matthew Liao is Director and Associate Professor of the Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press); co-editor of Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press); and over 50 articles in philosophy and bioethics. He has given a TED talk in New York, will give a TEDx talk at CERN in October, and has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper's Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American and other media outlets. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political and legal philosophy.