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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Messer, Neil (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, [2017]
Series:T & T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics Ser.
Subjects:
Christian ethics > Congresses.
Brain > Congresses.
Neurosciences > Congresses.
Cerveau > Congrès.
Neurosciences > Congrès.
Bio-ethics.
Theology.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Brain
Christian ethics
Neurosciences
Religion.
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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