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Knowing the Mind from Brain Data: The Challenge of Prediction and the Fairness of Relying on Objective Data about the Mind

open access: yesHastings Center Report, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 15-23, July–August 2025.
Abstract This article is the second in a series examining the ethical and social implications of inferring mental states from brain data. It considers two main topics. First, it discusses the challenges of extending inferences from present brain activity to mental states and from there to future mental states or behaviors. There is a risk of compounded
Jennifer A. Chandler
wiley   +1 more source

Stigmatisation, Exaggeration, and Contradiction: An Analysis of Scientific and Clinical Content in Canadian Print Media Discourse About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2019
Background: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a complex diagnosis that includes a wide range of neurodevelopmental disabilities, results from exposure to alcohol in the womb.
John Aspler   +4 more
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Dalla neuroeconomia alla neuroetica: verso una neuroscienza delle decisioni individuali e socio-morali

open access: yesRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017
Neuroeconomics and neuroethics are subfields of cognitive neuroscience that address the neural correlates of distinct, although strongly intertwined, facets of decision-making.
Maria Arioli, Nicola Canessa
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Ethical Responsibility vs. Ethical Responsiveness in Conscious and Unconscious Communication Agents

open access: yesProceedings, 2020
In this contribution, I start from Levy’s precious suggestion about the neuroethics of distinguishing between “the slow-conscious responsibility” of us as persons, versus “the fast-unconscious responsiveness” of sub-personal brain mechanisms studied in ...
Gianfranco Basti
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Resenha do livro Neuroethics of Biomarkers

open access: yesEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2018
Resenha do livro: BAUM, Matthew L. The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 206p.
Darlei Dall'Agnol   +2 more
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The Scope of the Medical Exception in Criminal Law

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 237-266, March 2025.
Many medical procedures involve the causation of serious injury by doctors to their patients. Yet when accepted as ‘proper medical treatment’, doctors incur no criminal liability for their actions, per the ‘medical exception’ in criminal law. This exception is well established; its scope much less so.
Lisa Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

Neuroethics

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An examination of ethical issues in recording and intervening in the brain, and the neurobiological basis of moral decision-making. Neuroethics is an introduction to the main ethical and legal issues in six areas of experimental and clinical neuroscience: neuroimaging, disorders of consciousness, brain death, cognitive and moral ...
Benjamin Davidson, Nir Lipsman
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Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 276-287, March 2025.
Abstract A prominent critique of cognitive or athletic enhancement claims that certain performance‐improving drugs or technologies may ‘cheapen’ resulting achievements. Considerably less attention has been paid to the impact of enhancement on the value of moral achievements.
Emma C. Gordon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in clinical brain–computer interfaces for assistive substitution and rehabilitation: A rapid scoping review

open access: yesSurgical Practice, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 35-49, February 2025.
Abstract Objective This scoping review explores the rapidly evolving field of brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies, with a particular emphasis on the fundamental concepts, advances made, and prospective applications. Following the 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society themed ‘Neuromodulation and Brain‐Computer ...
Robert Tsi‐Lok Ho   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biomedical moral enhancement for psychopaths

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 170-177, February 2025.
Abstract This study examines the ethical permissibility of biomedical moral enhancement (BME) for psychopaths, considering both coercive and voluntary approaches. To do so, I will first briefly explain what psychopaths are and some normative implications of these facts.
Junsik Yoon
wiley   +1 more source

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