Bioethics and Brains (Paperback)

John R. Shook

ISBN 10: 0262549999 / ISBN 13: 9780262549998

Published by MIT Press Ltd, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. How neuroethics can be increasingly relevant and informative for inclusive social policy and political discourse about brain science and technologies.How neuroethics can be increasingly relevant and informative for inclusive social policy and political discourse about brain science and technologies.Neuroethics, a field just over two decades old, addresses both ethical issues generated in and by brain sciences and the neuroscientific studies of moral and ethical thought and action. These foci are reciprocally interactive and prompt questions of how science and ethics can and should harmonize. In Bioethics and Brains, John R. Shook and James Giordano ask: How can the brain sciences inform ethics? And how might ethics guide the brain sciences and their real-world applications?The authors' structure for a disciplined neuroethics reconciles science and ethics by requiring ethical principles consistent with moral neuroscience and moral psychology. Their cosmopolitan perspective looks beyond Western theories toward a new metaethics for neuroethics and illustrates its approach in chapters that address the issues and approaches to questions and problems generated by the proliferation of neurotechnology in global contexts. Shook and Giordano posit that neuroethics can merge science and ethics toward establishing global consensus on guiding brain research, neurotechnological innovation, and grounding neurorights. "An argument for a metaethics of neuroethics - one that attempts to resolve the inherent contradictions of a science of morality"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9780262549998

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bioethics and Brains (Paperback)
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262549999
• ISBN 13: 9780262549998
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

How neuroethics can be increasingly relevant and informative for inclusive social policy and political discourse about brain science and technologies.

Neuroethics, a field just over two decades old, addresses both ethical issues generated in and by brain sciences and the neuroscientific studies of moral and ethical thought and action. These foci are reciprocally interactive and prompt questions of how science and ethics can and should harmonize. In Bioethics and Brains, John R. Shook and James Giordano ask: How can the brain sciences inform ethics? And how might ethics guide the brain sciences and their real-world applications?

The authors’ structure for a disciplined neuroethics reconciles science and ethics by requiring ethical principles consistent with moral neuroscience and moral psychology. Their cosmopolitan perspective looks beyond Western theories toward a new metaethics for neuroethics and illustrates its approach in chapters that address the issues and approaches to questions and problems generated by the proliferation of neurotechnology in global contexts. Shook and Giordano posit that neuroethics can merge science and ethics toward establishing global consensus on guiding brain research, neurotechnological innovation, and grounding neurorights.

About the Author

John R. Shook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University in Maryland and an Instructor with the Liberal Studies Graduate Program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He coedited Ectogenesis and Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Pragmatism, and he authored Pragmatism (MIT Press).

James Giordano is the Pellegrino Center Professor of Neurology and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Senior Bioethicist of the US Department of Defense Medical Ethics Center; and Chair Emeritus of the Neuroethics Project, IEEE Brain Initiative.