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This Handbook offers an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach, understand and reinvigorate traditional philosophical questions in ethics, as well as how those questions, with the grounding influence of neuroscience, are being revisited beyond the clinical and research domains. It also examines how contemporary neuroscience research might ultimately impact our understanding of relationships, flourishing, and human nature.
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Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I. What is Neuroethics?
- The Competing Identities of Neuroethics: Remarks on Theoretical and Methodological Assumptions and Their Practical Implications for the Future of Neuroethics
Eric Racine and Matthew Sample
- Neuroethics and the Neuroscientific Turn
Jon Leefmann and Elisabeth Hildt
Part II. The Ethics of Neuroscience
- Thinking Differently: Neurodiversity and Neural Engineering
Sara Goering
- The Ethics of Expanding Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation
Markus Christen and Sabine Müller
4.1 Spotlight: Neuromodulation
4.2 Spotlight: Ablation Techniques
Markus Christen and Sabine Müller
- The Ethics of Prodromal and Preclinical Disease Stages
Jalayne J. Arias, Jennifer Sarrett, Rosa Gonzalez, Elaine F. Walker
- Disorders of Consciousness and the Use of Neurotechnologies: An Ethical Perspective
Orsolya Friedrich and Ralf J. Jox
- Placebo for Psychogenic Disorders: Ethics, Illness, and Treatment Narratives
Lindsey Grubbs and Karen S. Rommelfanger
- Cosmetic Neurology and the Ethics of Enhancement
Anjan Chatterjee
- Modafinil and the Increasing Lifestyle Use of Smart Drugs by Healthy People: Neuroethical and Societal Issues
Sebastian Porsdam Mann and Barbara J. Sahakian
- Neuroenhancement and Therapy in National Defense Contexts
Michael N. Tennison and Jonathan D. Moreno
- Moral Neuroenhancement
Brian D. Earp, Thomas Douglas, and Julian Savulescu
- My Brain Made Me Do It?: Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
- Your Brain on Lies: Deception Detection in Court
Julie A. Seaman
13.1 Spotlight: Lie Detection Technologies
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
- Neuroprivacy and Cognitive Liberty
Paul Root Wolpe
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
L. Syd M Johnson
- Neurohype: A Field Guide to Exaggerated Brain-Based Claims
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Elizabeth Aslinger, Julia Marshall, and Sally Satel
- Neuroscience Online: Real Ethical Issues in Virtual Realms
Ryan H. Purcell and Karen S. Rommelfanger
- Home Use of tDCS: From "Do-It-Yourself" to "Direct-To-Consumer"
Anna Wexler and Peter B. Reiner
Part III. The Neuroscience of Ethics
- Moral Reasoning
John D. Banja
- Informing Ethical Decision Making
Adam Feltz and Edward T. Cokely
- Brain Implants: Implications for Free Will
Walter Glannon
21.1 Spotlight: Free Will
Walter Glannon
- Personal Identity and Brain Identity
Georg Northoff and Nils-Frederic Wagner
22.1 Spotlight: Mind-Body Identity: Are We Just Our Brains?
Kimberly Van Orman
- Values, Empathy, and the Brain
Nina L. Powell and Stuart W.G. Derbyshire
- Moral Robots
Matthias Scheutz and Bertram F. Malle
24.1 Spotlight: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and Moral Status
Susan Schneider
Part IV. Expanding the Frame
- Neurogenderings and Neuroethics
Cyd Cipolla and Kristina Gupta
- Neurodiversity, Neuroethics, and the Autism Spectrum
Emily Y. Liu
- RDoC’s Special Kind of Reductionism and its Possible Impact on Clinical Psychiatry
Luc Faucher and Simon Goyer
- Neuroethics in Context: The Development of the Discipline in Argentina
Arleen Salles
- Neuroethics in Japan
Tamami Fukushi, Taichi Isobe, Eisuke Nakazawa, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Akira Akabayashi, Laura Specker Sullivan and Osamu Sakura
- The Neurobiologic Embedding of Childhood Socioeconomic Status
Margaret A. Sheridan
- Prenatal and Neonatal Neuroethics: The Moral Significance of Painience
L. Syd M Johnson
- Animal Minds: The Neuroethics of Nonhuman Dissent
Andrew Fenton and Adam Shriver
Index
About the author
L. Syd M Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics in the departments of Humanities and Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Michigan Technological University. Her current research focuses on ethical and epistemological issues in disorders of consciousness and sport-related neurotrauma.
Karen S. Rommelfanger is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Neuroethics Program Director at Emory University’s Center for Ethics, and Neuroscience Editor-in-Residence at the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. A neuroscientist and ethicist, her current research explores how evolving neuroscience and neurotechnologies challenge societal definitions of disease and medicine. She is a member of the Neuroethics Division of the NIH BRAIN Initiative.
Summary
This Handbook offers an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach and understand traditional philosophical questions in ethics, and how those questions are being revisited beyond the clinical and research domains.
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"The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics is an impressive and important companion to the emerging discipline of neuroethics. The scope of the contributions to this handbook is dazzling, covering not merely well worked questions in neuroethics, but also giving us glimpses of its bright future. A judicious mix of big names and newer voices make this a volume that anyone with an interest in neuroethics will want to read."
--Neil Levy, Macquarie University and University of Oxford
"In this valuable and interdisciplinary collection, Johnson and Rommelfanger have compiled the most interesting and important writings in the emerging field of neuroethics. It explores both "the ethics of neuroscience," that is, ethical issues raised by neuroscience, and "the neuroscience of ethics," that is, the implications of neuroscience for metaethics and moral psychology. This Handbook is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand neuroethics and its potential implications for law and policy."
--Bonnie Steinbock, The University of Albany, SUNY
