The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research
and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete …

Clinical ethics is the application of ethical theories, principles, rules, and guidelines to
clinical situations in medicine. Therefore, clinical ethics is analogous to clinical medicine in …

Memory of past episodes provides a sense of personal identity—the sense that I am the
same person as someone in the past. We present a neurological case study of a patient who …

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The aim of this chapter is to articulate the state of the art in the moral psychology of personal
identity. It begins by discussing the major philosophical theories of personal identity …

What are we? What is the nature of the human person? Animalism has a straightforward
answer to these long-standing philosophical questions: we are animals. After being ignored …

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a well-accepted treatment for movement disorders and is
currently explored as a treatment option for various neurological and psychiatric disorders …

Ethical evaluation of deep brain stimulation as a treatment for Parkinson's disease is
complicated by results that can be described as involving changes in the patient's identity …

Peter Unger's provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic
philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on" empty …

Everyone undergoes many changes during the lifespan, and, in some cases, these changes
may be quite dramatic. Intuitively, however, some of these changes do not threaten personal …