Neil Levy: Neuroethics | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

Neuroscience has dramatically increased understanding of how mental states and processes are realized by the brain, thus opening doors for treating the multitude of ways in which minds become dysfunctional. This book explores questions such as when is it permissible to alter a person's memories, influence personality traits or read minds? What can neuroscience tell us about free will, self-control, self-deception and the foundations of morality? The view of neuroethics offered here argues that many of our new powers to read ,alter and control minds are not entirely unparalleled with older ones. They have, however, expanded to include almost all our social, political and ethical decisions. Written primarily for graduate students, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the more philosophical and ethical aspects of the neurosciences.

Über den Autor

Neil Levy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Research Fellow at the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, Oxford. He has published more than fifty articles in refereed journals, as well as four books previous to this one.

Zusammenfassung

Neuroethics is the study of the ethical implications of the sciences of the mind, and of the ways in which these sciences are transforming our understanding of human powers and nature. Devoting equal attention to the ethical issues and to philosophical reflection, this book provides a comprehensive summary and assessment of the main ethical questions, and advances an account of how neuroethics illuminates free will, self-control, self-deception and the foundations of morality. Written for graduates and academics of neuroethics, applied ethics, bioethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Changing our minds; 3. The presumption against direct manipulation; 4. Reading minds/controlling minds; 5. The neuroethics of memory; 6. The 'self' of self-control; 7. The neuroscience of free will; 8. Self-deception: the normal and the pathological; 9. The neuroscience of ethics.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521687263
ISBN-10:	0521687268
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Levy, Neil
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Neil Levy
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.03.2009
Gewicht:	0,527 kg