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- Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
- Language: Farsi
- Document No: 58696 (42)
- University: Sharif University of Technology
- Department: Philosophy of Science
- Advisor(s): Hosseini Sarvary, Hassan
- Abstract:
- The confrontation of living beings with evil, and the difficulties that naturally ensue from it, is as old as life itself. Among these evils, some lie outside the sphere of agents’ actions, while others (at least in the case of humans, and as appears at first glance) arise from their voluntary acts. As a rule, this second category is significant even for those who do not subscribe to belief in a divinity. Conventional approaches to this category, until roughly a century ago, examined it exclusively within domains such as ethics and theology. Subsequently, fields including social psychology, biological criminology (with an emphasis on aspects of evolutionary ethics), and the cognitive neurosciences have also taken it as an object of inquiry. Among these, cognitive neuroscience has assumed a more prominent role, owing to its use of advances in medical imaging that emerged in the late twentieth century and the early years of the present century. Findings from neuroimaging studies of individuals affected by disorders in which the risk of committing evil acts is higher than the population average reveal differences in both brain structure and function relative to that average. Identifying such differences holds out the promise of early interventions aimed at preventing the manifestation or exacerbation of these disorders; interventions whose effectiveness, however, is likely to be limited in scope
- Keywords:
- Cognitive Neuroscience ; Evil Action ; Neuroimaging ; Ethics ; Psychopathy ; Conduct Disorder ; Antisocial Personality Disorder
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