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HARDWIRED BEHAVIOR

Neuroscience research over the past twenty or more years has brought

about a signiﬁcant change in our perceptions of how the brain affects

morality. Findings show that the mind and brain are very close, if not

the same, and that the brain “makes” the mind. This is bringing about

a change of focus from examining mental activity (“mentalism”) to the

physical activity of the brain (“physicalism”) to understand thinking

and behavior. We are discovering that the physical features of the brain

play the major role in shaping our thoughts and emotions, including

the way we deal with “moral” issues. This book sets out the historical

framework of the transition from mentalism to physicalism, shows how

the physical brain works in moral decisions, and then examines three

broad areas of moral decision making: the brain in “bad” acts, the

brain in decisions involving sexual relations, and the brain in money

decision making.

Laurence R. Tancredi, a psychiatrist-lawyer, is a Clinical Professor of

Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and the author

or coauthor of numerous articles and several books on topics in law,

ethics, and psychiatry, including Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social

Power of Biological Information (1994) and When Law and Medicine

Meet: A Cultural View (2004). Tancredi has a private practice in New

York City and works as a forensic psychiatric consultant. He has con-

sulted in dozens of legal cases involving a wide variety of psychiatric

issues, from the effects of toxic environmental substances on brain

function to criminal cases involving assault, rape, and homicide.

HARDWIRED BEHAVIOR

WHAT NEUROSCIENCE

REVEALS ABOUT

MORALITY

Laurence R.Tancredi

New York University School of Medicine

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