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 …

THE study of morality, once the proprietary domain of philosophers, is increasingly an
interdisciplinary endeavor spanning the cognitive, social, and biological sciences. While …

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 …

The title of this chapter is a question: what is the ethical context of the neurosciences?
Neuroscience is a profession. Since the aim of this chapter is to describe the ethical context …

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 …