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Article: Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality
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- Ethics & Medicine
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- April 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Bioethics Press Spring 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality Laurence Tancredi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 10 0-521-86001-6; 226 PAGES, HARDCOVER, $28.99
Is moral behavior determined by nature or nurture? This is the question addressed by Laurence Tancredi in his book Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality. Tancredi contends for a biological basis for moral behavior, but his evidence is inconclusive and unconvincing.
As a psychiatrist, lawyer and consultant in forensic psychiatry, Tancredi believes that the human brain, which evolved through natural selection, now shapes our moral responses. He colors this argument with fascinating anecdotes from ...
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