Neuroethics Overview

Summary

Neuroethics refers to two related fields of study: what the philosopher Adina Roskies has called the ethics of neuroscience, and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience comprises the bulk of work in neuroethics.

It concerns the ethical, legal and social impact of neuroscience, including the ways in which neurotechnology can be used to predict or alter human behavior and “the implications of our mechanistic understanding of brain function for society… integrating neuroscientific knowledge with ethical and social thought”.

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