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Preface page ix Acknowledgements xiv 1 Introduction 1 What is neuroethics? 1 Neuroethics: some case studies 3 The mind and the brain 8 Peering into the mind 17 The extended mind 29 The debate over the extended mind 44 2 Changing our minds 69 Authenticity 73 Self-knowledge and personal growth 76 Mechanization of the self 78 Treating symptoms and not causes 81 3 The presumption against direct manipulation 88 The treatment/enhancement distinction 88 Enhancements as cheating 89 Inequality 92 Probing the distinction 94 Assessing the criticisms 103 Conclusion 129 4 Reading minds/controlling minds 133 Mind reading and mind controlling 133 Mind control 145 Mind reading, mind controlling and the parity principle 147 Conclusion 154 5 The neuroethics of memory 157 Total recall 159 Memory manipulation 171 Moderating traumatic memories 182 Moral judgment and the somatic marker hypothesis 187 Conclusion 195 6 The ‘‘self’’ of self-control 197 The development of self-control 203 Ego-depletion and self-control 206 Successful resistance 215 Addiction and responsibility 219 7 The neuroscience of free will 222 Consciousness and freedom 225 Who decides when I decide? 226 Consciousness and moral responsibility 231 Moral responsibility without the decision constraint 239 Lessons from neuroscience 243 Neuroscience and the cognitive test 246 Neuroscience and the volitional test 250 8 Self-deception: the normal and the pathological 258 Theories of self-deception 259 Anosognosia and self-deception 263 Anosognosia as self-deception 276 Conclusion: illuminating the mind 278 9 The neuroscience of ethics 281 Ethics and intuitions 282 The neuroscientific challenge to morality 288 vi contents Responding to the deflationary challenge 293 Moral constructivism 300 Moral dumbfounding and distributed cognition 307 Distributed cognition: extending the moral mind 308 References 317 Sharing Widget |