Localising The Moral Brain

by Verplaetse, Jan

• ISBN13: 9781402063213
• ISBN10: 1402063210
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "moral brain" became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm.

Table of Contents

The New Shapes of the Old Conscience	p. 1
Conscientia, Syneidesis, Synderesis	p. 1
The Philosophical Assault on Conscience	p. 4
Conscience as Moral Sense	p. 6
Conscience as Moral Faculty	p. 9
Moral Sense and Moral Faculty in France	p. 11
Conscience as Instinct	p. 13
The Influence of Darwin and Spencer	p. 15
French Positivism and Naturalism	p. 18
Conscience During the fin de siecle	p. 21
The New Instinct Theory in England and America	p. 24
The End of Physical Metaphors?	p. 27
Conscientiousness or the Moral Organ in Phrenology	p. 29
Dieu et cerveau, rien que Dieu et cerveau	p. 30
Phrenological Societies	p. 33
The Criminal Antihero	p. 36
The Moral Organ	p. 39
Felix Voisin	p. 44
Phrenology as Occultism	p. 46
The German Alternative	p. 49
The Experimental Neurology of the Moral Centre	p. 55
The New Localisation Doctrine from the 1860s Onwards	p. 55
A Physiological Explanation of Will Power	p. 57
The Flourishing of the Experimental Tradition in Germany	p. 61
Eduard Hitzig	p. 62
David Ferrier	p. 64
Friedrich Goltz	p. 68
Leonardo Bianchi	p. 71
The Dissection of Morality	p. 73
Broca's Thermometer	p. 73
Lombroso's Letter	p. 75
Mosso's Longing to Penetrate the Inner Life of Nerve Cells	p. 75
The Galvanic Dream of Fleischl von Marxov	p. 78
The Clinical Neurology of the Moral Centre	p. 83
Acquired Moral Insanity	p. 83
Traumas	p. 84
Tumours	p. 86
Paul Schuster's Magisterial Review	p. 89
Welt's Daring Localisation	p. 91
Abuse of Healthy Progress	p. 94
The Hypothesis of a Cortical Centre of the Moral Sense	p. 96
William Browning's Localisation	p. 98
Penetrating Traumas of the Frontal Lobes	p. 103
Morally Insane Great War Veterans	p. 104
German Exceptions	p. 107
Karl Kleist and the Localisation of the Gemeinschafts-Ich	p. 109
Grey, My Friend, Is All Theory, but Green Is the Golden Tree of Life	p. 114
The Microscopy and Endocrinology of the Moral Centre	p. 117
A Time-Consuming Chore	p. 117
Theodor Meynert's Model	p. 119
Criminal Brains in Slices	p. 121
Campbell's Lecture in the Shadow of Lantern Slides	p. 122
Paul Flechsig's Rectorial Address	p. 124
To the Somaesthetic Region and Back	p. 129
An Ethical Aristocracy	p. 132
The Revenants of Arthur Van Gehuchten	p. 133
Hormones, Autocoids and Homeostasis	p. 136
Constantin Von Monakow's Syneidesis	p. 138
Cain's Endocrinological Mark	p. 141
The Localisation of Morality in Criminal Anthropology	p. 145
Apelike Thumbs	p. 145
The Rise of Criminal Anthropology	p. 146
The French and German Responses to Lombroso's Born Criminal	p. 148
The Remorseless Criminal	p. 152
The Location of the Absent Moral Sense	p. 154
Neanderthal Versus Cro-Magnon	p. 158
Moritz Benedikt's Three Lectures	p. 159
The More Man Possesses a Moral Organ, the More Apelike His Brain Becomes (Meynert)	p. 164
Seelenkunde (1895) or Benedikt's Second Localisation of Morality	p. 165
Benedikt as Freethinker	p. 167
The Criminal's Brain Tissue	p. 171
Luigi Roncoroni	p. 174
Lamina Granularis Interna	p. 177
Encounters in Alexandersbad	p. 180
Lamina Pyramidalis	p. 182
Moral Association Chains	p. 187
Moral Insanity as a Disorder of the Moral Sense	p. 191
Benjamin Rush: Anomia and Micronomia	p. 192
Pinel and Esquirol: Mania and Monomania	p. 193
James Cowles Prichard: Moral Insanity	p. 194
Inhibitory Insanity in England	p. 196
Towards an Ethical Interpretation	p. 198
The Ethical Interpretation of Moral Insanity in Germany	p. 200
The "psychopathische Personlichkeit" and the "pervers instinctif"	p. 203
A Psychological Misnomer (Cyril Burt)	p. 205
The Influence of the Localisation Doctrine	p. 207
There is Only Empty Space	p. 213
No Radical Localisations of Moral Insanity	p. 216
Encephalitis Lethargica: A Brain Disease of the Moral Sense?	p. 219
The 1915-1927 Epidemic Encephalitis Pandemic	p. 219
Personality Disorders	p. 223
Postencephalitic Moral Insanity	p. 228
The Cortical Localisation of the Montpellier School	p. 233
Karl Bonhoeffer's Konkordanz	p. 236
Postencephalitic Moral Insanity Under the Microscope	p. 238
Jean Camus' Centres Regulateurs	p. 239
Conclusion-Localising the Moral Sense: Believers and Disbelievers	p. 243
An Exceptional Phenomenon	p. 243
The Frustration of the Neuropsychiatrist	p. 248
The Frustration of the Forensic Psychiatrist	p. 253
The Voice in the Blood	p. 258
References	p. 261
Name Index	p. 285
Subject Index	p. 289
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