I’d like to direct you to a post by Benoit Hardy-Vallée, a U of Toronto philosopher of science interested in neuroethics and neuroeconomics. It is a nice discussion of the Knobe Effect, supported by a good list of references.
Take a look at some of the other posts as well, and subscribe to his RSS feed. [...]
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Discovering Natural Rationality
Posted in academic, blogosphere, experimental philosophy, neuroethics on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Audio: Law and ethics of brain scans
Posted in neuroethics, neurolaw on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The law faculty of Arizona State University hosted a conference on the topic of neuroethics and neurolaw, and kindly uploaded audio of the speaker’s presentations. Most are accompanied by PowerPoint presentations you can download as PDFs.
These two give particularly good overviews:
Emily Murphy, Authenticity, Bluffing, and the Privacy of Human Thought: Ethical Issues in Brain Scanning
Gary [...]
Open access neuroethics repositories
Posted in academic, neuroethics, open access publishing on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two things occupying places of distinction on this blog’s tag cloud, neuroethics and open access, come together at the excellent ScholarlyCommons@Penn, a repository for scholars papers. There you can find neuroethics publications authored by researchers at Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, dating back to 1996.
The repository is very well designed, and exactly the sort of thing [...]
More neuroethics webcasts, with a side order of text
Posted in academic, diversion, neuroethics, open access publishing on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To add to the collection, an interesting pair of webcasts from the Dana Foundation:
The Neuroethics of Enhancement (which gives mention to the Neuroethics Society)
Alzheimer’s Disease: When Will We Find a Cure?
While I was at the foundation website, I spotted a sensibly titled new volume joining the small library of authoritative neuroethics surveys.
Walter Glannon. Defining Right [...]
Neuroethics and the heritage of 18th Century philosophy
Posted in criticism, moral psychology, neuroethics on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ronald Bailey at Reason Magazine quotes a passage from Adam Smith’s 1759 text, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and finds remarkable similarities with what modern neuroscience has to say about altruism.
It’s nice to see the Enlightenment making itself known in the press, but he goes a bit far when he says:
Now neuroscience is confirming Smith’s [...]
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