by Neil Messer (Author)
Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the `ethics of neuroscience' and the `neuroscience of ethics'. While some of these are familiar to theologians, others have been more or less ignored hitherto, and the field of neuroethics as a whole has received little theological attention. Drawing on both theological ethics and the science-and-theology field, Messer discusses cognitive-scientific and neuroscientific studies of religion, arguing that they do not give grounds to dismiss theological perspectives on the human self. He examines a representative range of topics across the whole field of neuroethics, including consciousness, the self and the value of human life; the neuroscience of morality; determinism, freewill and moral responsibility; and the ethics of cognitive enhancement.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 226
Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL
Published: 18 Apr 2019
ISBN 10: 0567688011
ISBN 13: 9780567688019
Book Overview: Offers a wide-ranging theological treatment of the new field of neuroethics.