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 more or...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | Theological Neuroethics: Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain, Neil Messer, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-567-67139-4), x + 218 pp., hb £85 (2018) (Hurst, Daniel J.)
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| Series/Journal: | T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethics
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christian ethics (motif)
/ Brain research
/ Neurosciences
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| Further subjects: | B
Christian Ethics Congresses
B Brain Congresses B Neurosciences Congresses |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 182-207 und Index |
| Physical Description: | x, 215 Seiten, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-567-67139-4 |
