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Session 5: Applied Ethics

Nov 23rd, 2010 by

Feb 25, 2011

Moral Cognition and Applied Ethics

Assessing the implications of current research in neuroscience on realms such as business ethics, bioethics, and law.

Main reading:

Mason, Kelby. (forthcoming). Moral Psychology And Moral Intuition: A Pox On All Your Houses. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Greene, J. D. 2007. The secret joke of Kant’s soul, in Moral Psychology, Vol. 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease, and Development, W. Sinnott-Armstrong, Ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Recommended reading:

Damasio A. 2007. Neuroscience and ethics: intersections. American Journal of Bioethics 7(1):3-7.

Greene, J. D. and J.D. Cohen. 2004. For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, (Special Issue on Law and the Brain), 359, 1775-1785.

Greely, Henry T. (2005) The Social Consequences of Advances in Neuroscience: Legal Problems; Legal Perspectives. In Neuroethics: Defining the Issues In Theory, Practice and Policy. Judy Illes (ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, M. 2009. What Cognitive Science Brings to Ethics. In Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds. D. Ambrose & T. Cross (eds.) Dordrecht: Springer, 147-150.

Liao, S.M. 2008. Issues in the Pharmacological Induction of Emotions. Journal of Applied Philosophy 25(3): 178-192.

Mikhail, J. 2010. Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls’ Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rosen, J. 2007. The Brain on the Stand. New York Times March 11.

Sommerville, A. 2003. Juggling law, ethics, and intuition: practical answers to awkward questions. Journal of Medical Ethics 29: 281-286

Tassy, S., P. Le Coz, and B. Wicker. 2008. Current knowledge in moral cognition can improve medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics 34:679-682.

Tenbrunsel, A. E., and K. Smith-Crowe. 2008. Ethical decision making: Where we’ve been and where we’re going. Academy of Management Annals 2: 545-607.

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