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Theological neuroethics : Christian ethics meets the science of the human brain / Neil Messer.
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Messer, Neil
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English
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017.
©2017
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x, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
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BJ1189 .M47 2017
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Christian ethics
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Brain
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Neurosciences
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T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics
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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.
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ISBN
9780567671394 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
0567671399 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
9780567688019
0567688011
LCCN
2017034066
OCLC
999309188
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