Abstract
Neurobiology of Moral Judgement: New Epistemic Highway or Dead End? Society increasingly challenges neuroscience to provide explanatory paradigms regarding foundations of moral judgements. This naturalization program of morality has led some neuroscientists to draw normative conclusions about the origin and nature of these judgments. Pioneers of this field of research developed experimental models of moral judgements based on moral dilemmas. They developed a theory stating that moral judgments result from a conflict between a "deontological" system, inherited from a distant past common to all vertebrates, and a "utilitarian" system that would have appeared with the development of the prefrontal cortex in humans. Moral judgment is therefore constantly torn between these two principles. In this article, we criticize this approach by showing its philosophical and scientific flaws. We question the ability of neuroscience to account for moral judgement on its own, and conclude that the contribution of neuroscience is significant but must be confronted with other disciplines.
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