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Theological neuroethics : Christian ethics meets the science of the human brain /

"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 mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Messer, Neil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, [2017]
Colección:T & T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Pious primates with believing brains: evolutionary, cognitive and neuroscientific accounts of religion
  • 'Like God, knowing good and evil': the neuroscience of morality and the theological suspicion of ethics
  • Freedom, responsibility, sin and grace: 'Mr Puppet' meets St Augustine
  • Consciousness and its disorders: Uncle Charlie revisited
  • Messing with our minds: the ethics of technological interventions in the brain
  • Conclusion: beyond mutual neglect.