Paper's abstract

Sébastien Tassy, A neuroscientific approach to moral reasoning: Towards a new cognitive model distinguishing judgment and choice of action
At the interface of fields as diverse as evolutionary biology, philosophy and psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience allows important advances in the under-standing of the foundations of moral cognition. Recent advances in this field question the dualism opposing reason to emotion and lead to reconsider the problem of acrasia. A conflict may exist between the choice of action and the moral judgment that precedes. This phenomenon has questioned philosophers since Plato. Here we consider it in light of the latest neuroscientific findings and propose a cognitive model to account for it.

Key Words : moral, emotion, judgement, choice, brain
tome 55, 2012: p.3-18

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