Theological neuroethics : Christian ethics meets the science of the human brain / by Neil Messer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messer, Neil, author.

Series:

International theological commentary on the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments.

T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--Congresses.

Christian ethics.

Brain--Congresses.

Brain.

Neurosciences--Congresses.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( 216 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.

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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Pious primates with believing brains: evolutionary, cognitive and neuroscientific accounts of religion

'Like God, knowing good and evil': the neuroscience of morality and the theological suspicion of ethics

Freedom, responsibility, sin and grace: 'Mr Puppet' meets St Augustine

Consciousness and its disorders: Uncle Charlie revisited

Messing with our minds: the ethics of technological interventions in the brain

Conclusion: beyond mutual neglect.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-567-67142-9

0-567-67140-2

0-567-67141-0

OCLC:

999309230