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

Author
Messer, Neil [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
x, 215 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-207) and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780567671394 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 0567671399 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 9780567688019
    • 0567688011
    LCCN
    2017034066
    OCLC
    999309188
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