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Neuroethics : Challenges for the 21st Century.
Title:
Neuroethics : Challenges for the 21st Century.
Author:
Levy, Neil.
ISBN:
9780511341083
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- End note -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- What is neuroethics? -- Neuroethics: some case studies -- Body integrity identity disorder -- Automatism -- The mind and the brain -- Peering into the mind -- The extended mind -- The parity thesis -- The debate over the extended mind -- Causal regularities -- Informational integration -- The parity thesis again -- End notes -- 2 Changing our minds -- Authenticity -- Self-knowledge and personal growth -- Mechanization of the self -- Treating symptoms and not causes -- End notes -- 3 The presumption against direct manipulation -- The treatment/enhancement distinction -- Enhancements as cheating -- Inequality -- Probing the distinction -- Assessing the criticisms -- Authenticity -- Self-knowledge and personal growth -- Mechanization of the self -- Treating symptoms, not causes -- Cheating and inequality -- Conclusion -- End notes -- 4 Reading minds/controlling minds -- Mind reading and mind controlling -- Mind control -- Mind reading, mind controlling and the parity principle -- Conclusion -- End note -- 5 The neuroethics of memory -- Total recall -- Memory manipulation -- Moderating traumatic memories -- Moral judgment and the somatic marker hypothesis -- Conclusion -- End notes -- 6 The "self" of self-control -- The development of self-control -- Ego-depletion and self-control -- Successful resistance -- Addiction and responsibility -- End notes -- 7 The neuroscience of free will -- Consciousness and freedom -- Who decides when I decide? -- Consciousness and moral responsibility -- Moral responsibility without the decision constraint -- Lessons from neuroscience -- Neuroscience and the cognitive test -- Neuroscience and the volitional test -- End notes -- 8 Self-deception: the normal and the pathological.

Theories of self-deception -- Anosognosia and self-deception -- Anosognosia as self-deception -- Conclusion: illuminating the mind -- End notes -- 9 The neuroscience of ethics -- Ethics and intuitions -- The neuroscientific challenge to morality -- Responding to the deflationary challenge -- Moral constructivism -- Moral dumbfounding and distributed cognition -- Distributed cognition: extending the moral mind -- End note -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
An ethical and philosophical examination of our understanding of human powers and nature.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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