Brain Ethics Blog Wants to Elevate Neuroscience Discussion

Fri, Dec 23, 2005

Neuroethics

If you want to focus on the ethical issues involving neuroscience, check out this blog: BrainEthics – Consequences of Brain Science. Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy and Martin Skov write about neuroscience topics from an ethicist perspective. Here’s their mission statement:

Why brain ethics?
Research into the brain is changing our view of what it is to be a human being. Our knowledge of core human faculties such as language, social reasoning, aesthetics, and economics is challenged by this research, yielding multiple hard questions. Do we have a free will? Is the mind innate or plastic? Should we surgically or pharmacologically enhance our mental faculties? Can responsibility for crime be determined in a brain scanner? Are our old notions of “human nature” a thing of the past?

In this post, they encourage elevating the discussion of neuroscience around the world. (We’ll try to do our part! :) )

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This post was written by:

Roger Dooley (author of 560 posts on Neuromarketing.)

Roger Dooley writes and speaks about marketing, and in particular the use of neuroscience and behavioral research to make advertising, marketing, and products better. He is the primary author at Neuromarketing, and founder of Dooley Direct LLC, a marketing consultancy.

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