The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
ISBN: 9780060884734 | 0060884738
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date: 9/1/2009
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A provocative and fascinating look at new discoveries about the brain that challenge our ethics The rapid advance of scientific knowledge has raised ethical dilemmas that humankind has never before had to address. Questions about the moment when life technically begins and ends or about the morality of genetically designing babies are now relevant and timely. Our ever-increasing knowledge of the workings of the human brain can guide us in the formation of new moral principles in the twenty-first century. In The Ethical Brain, preeminent neurosc... MORE
| Acknowledgments | ix | ||||
| Preface | xiii | ||||
| Part I Life-Span Neuroethics | |||||
| 3 | (16) | |||
| 19 | (18) | |||
| Part II Brain Enhancement | |||||
| 37 | (18) | |||
| 55 | (16) | |||
| 71 | (16) | |||
| Part III Free Will, Personal Responsibility, and the Law | |||||
| 87 | (16) | |||
| 103 | (17) | |||
| 120 | (25) | |||
| Part IV The Nature of Moral Beliefs and the Concept of Universal Ethics | |||||
| 145 | (18) | |||
| 163 | (16) | |||
| Endnotes | 179 | (16) | |||
| Index | 195 |
Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director fo the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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