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Informationen zum Autor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics at Duke University in the Philosophy Department, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Law School. He has served as co-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association http://www.apaonline.org/ and co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/. He publishes widely in ethics, moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law, epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of religion. Klappentext The prominent contributors provide background information, survey the issues and positions, and take controversial stands from a wide variety of perspectives, including neuroscience and neurology, law and policy, and philosophy and ethics. Zusammenfassung The prominent contributors provide background information, survey the issues and positions, and take controversial stands from a wide variety of perspectives, including neuroscience and neurology, law and policy, and philosophy and ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 - Finding Consciousness: An Introduction By Meghan Brayton and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 2 - Discussion with a Caring Father By Ken Diviney and Katherine Grichnik PART I: Consciousness 3 - The Geography of Unconsciousness: From Apparent Death to the Minimally Conscious State By Jeffrey Baker 4 - Consciousness and Death: The Whole-Brain Formulation of Death By James L. Bernat 5 - Modes of Consciousness By Tim Bayne and Jakob Hohwy PART II: Diagnosis 6 - What is it like to be in a Disorder of Consciousness By Caroline Schnakers 7 - Decoding Thoughts in Behaviorally Non-Responsive Patients By Adrian Owen and Lorina Naci 8 - Persistent Vegetative State, Akinetic Mutism, and Consciousness By Will Davies and Neil Levy PART III: Ethics 9 - Lay Attitudes to Withdrawal of Treatment in Disorders of Consciousness and Their Normative Significance By Jacob Gipson, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu 10 - Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State By Joshua Shepherd 11 - What's Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of Consciousness By Jennifer Hawkins 12 - Minimally Conscious States and Pain: A Different Approach to Patient Ethics By Valerie Gray Hardcastle PART IV: Law 13 - The Legal Circle of Life By Nita Farahany and Rachel Zacharias 14 - Guardianship and the Injured Brain: Representation and the Rights of Patients and Families By Joseph Fins and Barbara Pohl References Index ...
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The prominent contributors provide background information, survey the issues and positions, and take controversial stands from a wide variety of perspectives, including neuroscience and neurology, law and policy, and philosophy and ethics.
