The Ethical Brain

Contents

Acknowledgments.............................................................................ix Preface.....................................................................................xiii Part I Life-Span Neuroethics 1. Conferring Moral Status on an Embryo.....................................................3 2. The Aging Brain..........................................................................19 Part II Brain Enhancement 3. Better Brains Through Genes..............................................................37 4. Training the Brain.......................................................................55 5. Shaping the Smart Brain with Drugs.......................................................71 Part III Free Will, Personal Responsibility, and the Law 6. My Brain Made Me Do It...................................................................87 7. Antisocial Thoughts and the Right to Privacy.............................................103 8. The Brain Produces a Poor Autobiography..................................................120 Part IV The Nature of Moral Beliefs and the Concept of Universal Ethics 9. The Believing Brain......................................................................145 10. Toward a Universal Ethics................ ... read full excerpt from The Ethical Brain ebook