Conference Double Standards. Towards an Integration of Evolutionary
and Neurological Perspectives on Human Morality

Friday 20 & Saturday 21 october, 2006

Ghent University, Belgium
Auditorium C
Universiteitstraat 4

all information: http://www.themoralbrain.be/

programme:

Friday, october 20

9:10-9:15 Welcome and Aim
9:15-10:00 RANDOLPH NESSE (University of Michigan)
"Social Selection and the Origins of Brain Mechanisms for Moral Capacities"

10:00-10:45 JOHN TEEHAN (Hofstra University New York)
"Evolution and the Cognitive Bases of Religious Ethics/Violence"

11:15-12:00 DEBRA LIEBERMAN (University of Hawai)
"Moral sentiments relating to incest: Discerning adaptations from by-products"

14:00-14:25 abstract session: Matthijs Van Veelen (Amsterdam University)
14:25-14:50: abstract session: Nicolas Baumard (Ecole Normale Supéreure Paris)

15:15-16:00: PETER HAMMERSTEIN  (Humboldt University Berlin)
"Cognitive science, neurobiology and the evolution of human cooperation"
abstract

16:00-18:00: Visit to exhibition BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Museum Dr Guislain)

Saturday, october 21

9:00-9:45 HAUKE HEEKEREN (Max Planck Berlin)
"Moral decision-making and the Brain: Interaction of Emotion and Cognition"

9:45-10:30 JEAN DECETY (University of Chicago)
"The social neuroscience of perspective taking and empathy"

11:15-12:00 JORGE MOLL (NIH/NINDS Bethesda)
"Moral values and the brain: implications to the evolution of human altruism"

14:00-14:25 abstract session: Kristin Prehn (Berlin)
14:25-14:50: abstract session: William Casebeer (Harvard)

15:15-16:00 JAMES BLAIR (NIH/NIMH Bethesda)
"Speculations on the evolution of the regulation of aggression: Data from
individuals with psychopathy"

16:15-17:00: ADRIAN RAINE (University of Southern California)
"The Immoral Brain: Evolution, Brain Structure, and Cheating"

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