Diane
03-03-2007, 11:37 AM
I found this on MindBlog (http://www.dericbownds.net/MindBlog.html): Neuroethics (http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/index.html). I think Deric Bownds is onto something by linking to this.. and I think the site itself is timely.
What is neuroethics?
'Neuroethics' is the ethics of neuroscience, analogous to the term 'bioethics' which denotes the ethics of biomedical science more generally.
Neuroethics encompasses a wide array of ethical issues emerging from different branches of clinical neuroscience (neurology, psychiatry, psychopharmacology) and basic neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience).
These include ethical problems raised by advances in functional neuroimaging, brain implants and brain-machine interfaces and psychopharmacology as well as by our growing understanding of the neural bases of behavior, personality, consciousness, and states of spiritual transcendence.
What is this website?
Neuroethics.upenn.edu is a source of information on neuroethics, provided by Martha Farah of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Here you will find:
* summaries of neuroethical issues prepared expressly for this website
* pointers to the literature with links to downloadable articles or article abstracts
* links to other relevant websites on neuroethics, neuroscience, and policy
* other sources of education and amusement, including neuroethics course syllabi, a neuroethics conference calendar, and a listing of novels and films that deal with neuroethical issues.
Our goal is to inform students and professionals in bioethics, neuroscience, medicine, business, education and law, and all other interested readers who surf our way.
In the Consciousness Continuum (http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/conciousness_continuum2.html) section there is something on a robot called Kismet (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/kismet/kismet.html) that may appeal to Jon whose recent thread is on robots (http://www.somasimple.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3457).
What is neuroethics?
'Neuroethics' is the ethics of neuroscience, analogous to the term 'bioethics' which denotes the ethics of biomedical science more generally.
Neuroethics encompasses a wide array of ethical issues emerging from different branches of clinical neuroscience (neurology, psychiatry, psychopharmacology) and basic neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience).
These include ethical problems raised by advances in functional neuroimaging, brain implants and brain-machine interfaces and psychopharmacology as well as by our growing understanding of the neural bases of behavior, personality, consciousness, and states of spiritual transcendence.
What is this website?
Neuroethics.upenn.edu is a source of information on neuroethics, provided by Martha Farah of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Here you will find:
* summaries of neuroethical issues prepared expressly for this website
* pointers to the literature with links to downloadable articles or article abstracts
* links to other relevant websites on neuroethics, neuroscience, and policy
* other sources of education and amusement, including neuroethics course syllabi, a neuroethics conference calendar, and a listing of novels and films that deal with neuroethical issues.
Our goal is to inform students and professionals in bioethics, neuroscience, medicine, business, education and law, and all other interested readers who surf our way.
In the Consciousness Continuum (http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/conciousness_continuum2.html) section there is something on a robot called Kismet (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/kismet/kismet.html) that may appeal to Jon whose recent thread is on robots (http://www.somasimple.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3457).