Is the Personal Identity Debate a "Threat" to Neurosurgical Patients? A Reply to Müller et al [0.03%]
个人身份问题对神经外科病人构成“威胁”吗？回应穆勒等人的观点
Sven Nyholm
Sven Nyholm
In their article in this journal, Sabine Müller, Merlin Bittlinger, and Henrik Walter launch a sweeping attack against what they call the "personal identity debate" as it relates to patients treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS). In th...
Roger Crisp,Morten Kringelbach
Roger Crisp
This paper discusses J.S. Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures, and suggests that recent neuroscientific evidence counts against it. ...
Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation in Adolescent Patients with Refractory Tourette Syndrome: a Systematic Review and Two Case Discussions [0.03%]
青少年难治性抽动症患者深部脑刺激的伦理学：系统评价和两个病例讨论
Anouk Y J M Smeets,A A Duits,D Horstkötter et al.
Anouk Y J M Smeets et al.
Introduction: Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a childhood onset disorder characterized by vocal and motor tics and often remits spontaneously during adolescence. For treatment refractory patients, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) m...
Emilian Mihailov,Julian Savulescu
Emilian Mihailov
Should the development of pharmacological cognitive enhancers raise worries about doping in cognitively demanding activities? In this paper, we argue against using current evidence relating to enhancement to justify a ban on cognitive enhan...
Ingmar Persson,Julian Savulescu
Ingmar Persson
This is a reply to Jesse Prinz and Paul Bloom's skepticism about the moral importance of empathy. It concedes that empathy is spontaneously biased to individuals who are spatio-temporally close, as well as discriminatory in other ways, and ...
Public Attitudes Towards Moral Enhancement. Evidence that Means Matter Morally [0.03%]
公众对道德增强的态度。手段本身具有道德意义的证据
Jona Specker,Maartje H N Schermer,Peter B Reiner
Jona Specker
To gain insight into the reasons that the public may have for endorsing or eschewing pharmacological moral enhancement for themselves or for others, we used empirical tools to explore public attitudes towards these issues. Participants (N =...
Towards a Moral Ecology of Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement in British Universities [0.03%]
论英国高校中药物认知增强技术的道德生态学
Meghana Kasturi Vagwala,Aude Bicquelet,Gabija Didziokaite et al.
Meghana Kasturi Vagwala et al.
Few empirical studies in the UK have examined the complex social patterns and values behind quantitative estimates of the prevalence of pharmacological cognitive enhancement (PCE). We conducted a qualitative investigation of the social dyna...
Rafael Ahlskog
Rafael Ahlskog
Current suggestions for capacities that should be targeted for moral enhancement has centered on traits like empathy, fairness or aggression. The literature, however, lacks a proper model for understanding the interplay and complexity of mo...
From 'Hard' Neuro-Tools to 'Soft' Neuro-Toys? Refocussing the Neuro-Enhancement Debate [0.03%]
从“硬核”神经工具到“软性”神经玩具？重塑神经增强讨论焦点
Jonna Brenninkmeijer,Hub Zwart
Jonna Brenninkmeijer
Since the 1990's, the debate concerning the ethical, legal and societal aspects of 'neuro-enhancement' has evolved into a massive discourse, both in the public realm and in the academic arena. This ethical debate, however, tends to repeat t...
Amnestic MCI Patients' Perspectives toward Disclosure of Amyloid PET Results in a Research Context [0.03%]
阿尔兹海默病预防临床试验中记忆下降型MCI患者对淀粉样PET检查结果共享的看法
Gwendolien Vanderschaeghe,Jolien Schaeverbeke,Rik Vandenberghe et al.
Gwendolien Vanderschaeghe et al.
Background: Researchers currently are not obligated to share individual research results (IRR) with participants. This non-disclosure policy has been challenged on the basis of participants' rights to be aware and in cont...