Many contemporary accounts of moral status consider an individual's status to be grounded
in some cognitive capacity, eg the capacity to experience certain states, to reason morally …

It is plausible that we have moral reasons to become better at conforming to our moral
reasons. However, it is not always clear what means to greater moral conformity we should …

Most philosophers think that phenomenal consciousness underlies, or at any rate makes a
large contribution, to moral considerability. This paper argues that many such accounts …

It is by now a well-supported hypothesis in cognitive neuroscience that there exists a
functional network for the moral appraisal of situations. However, there is a surprising …

This chapter sketches and discusses the most prominent contemporary accounts of moral
cognition, concentrating on the normative implications that have or might been drawn from …

This paper is situated at the intersection of science-fiction literature, existentialist philosophy,
and neuroethics—and it amounts to a novel challenge to an implicit neuroessentialism that …

The tools of neuroscience have increasingly been employed to address questions long
considered the realm of philosophers, including questions of moral sentiment, choice …

Imagine that you have an opportunity to kill your neighbor and steal her money. You hate
your neighbor, and you need money. There is almost no chance that you will be caught, and …

Neuroethics is an emerging interdisciplinary field with unsettled boundaries. Many of the
ethical issues within the purview of neuroethics could be described as resulting from the …

The goal of neuroscience is to understand how nervous systems are organized to produce
adaptive behaviour and, since nervous systems may contain more than 1012 cells, each …