Theological Neuroethics

Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain

AvNeil Messer,Brian Brock

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the ‘ethics of neuroscience’ and the ‘neuroscience of ethics’. While some of these are familiar to theologians, others have been more or less ignored hitherto, and the field of neuroethics as a whole has received little theological attention. Drawing on both theological ethics and the science-and-theology field, Messer discusses cognitive-scientific and neuroscientific studies of religion, arguing that they do not give grounds to dismiss theological perspectives on the human self. He examines a representative range of topics across the whole field of neuroethics, including consciousness, the self and the value of human life; the neuroscience of morality; determinism, freewill and moral responsibility; and the ethics of cognitive enhancement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-18
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567688019

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Neil Messer is Professor of Theology at the University of Winchester, UK.

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This volume is a great initial exposure to some of the issues involved in ethics, neuroscience, and what a theological response could be ... recommended for upper-division university students in philosophy or theology and graduate students in those disciplines.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction: Where Science, Theology and Ethics Collide?Chapter 2Pious Primates with Believing Brains: Evolutionary, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Accounts of ReligionChapter 3Selves, Souls and Consciousness: Uncle Charlie Revisited Chapter 3Neuroscience, Moral Judgement and the Theological Suspicion of EthicsChapter 4'Like God, Knowing Good and Evil' The Neuroscience of Morality and the theological suspicion of ethics Chapter 5Freedom, Responsibility, Sin and Grace: 'Mr Puppet' meets St AugustineChapter 6Messing with Our Minds: The Ethics of Technological Interventions in the BrainChapter 7Conclusion: Collision or Creative Meeting?BibliographyIndex