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Depuis quelques décennies, les progrès de l'imagerie cérébrale (scanners et résonance magnétique) ont permis un développement sans précédent de notre connaissance du cerveau. Comme souvent, les avancées scientifiques et les applications qu'elles rendent possibles soulèvent des questions éthiques fondamentales. Leur enjeu apparaît ici d'autant plus décisif qu'elles concernent un organe qui symbolise pour beaucoup la personne elle-même : mieux connaître le cerveau, c'est mieux nous connaître : et agir sur lui, c'est agir sur notre identité. Jusqu'où pouvons-nous et devons-nous aller ? Au-delà des problématiques proprement éthiques, le domaine de la neuroéthique s'étend à des questions philosophiques fondatrices, que les neurosciences renouvellent en profondeur : la nature de l'être humain, les rapports de l'âme et du corps, le libre arbitre ou l'identité personnelle. Cet ouvrage est principalement consacré à quatre de ces questions : le rôle. classiquement dévalorisé par les philosophes, des émotions dans nos décisions morales : la place de la responsabilité et de la liberté individuelles à l'épreuve du déterminisme cérébral : l'observation des états mentaux à travers la neuro-imagerie qui réactive un vieux rêve, lire dans l'esprit : et enfin l'amélioration des capacités humaines que promettent les médicaments du cerveau. En soumettant les neurosciences à l'examen philosophique et, réciproquement, en étudiant en quoi leurs avancées nous obligent à repenser nos conceptions morales, cette réflexion solidement argumentée évite à la fois un refus de principe et un enthousiasme naïf

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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. How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or "moral insanity" (psychopathy) even renowned and outstanding neurologists, including Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Oskar Vogt or Constantin von Monakow, had the nerves to make their speculations public. This book presents the first overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality, their positions and arguments and offers an explanation for these historical attempts to localise our moral sense, in spite of the massive disapproving commentary launched by colleagues.

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