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Contents
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

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