NSCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neuroethics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Consequentialism
15 Jun 2016
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Ethical and empirical approaches are connected from the outset. When there is no pheduthery duty (institutionally requirements - lawyers, researchers, physicians), then apply general principles of morality (consequencialism, utilitarian, etc) researcher and physicians have phydutiarary duty. Cognitive neuroscience of ethics two branches of of neuroethics neuroscience of ethics ethics of neuroscience. Deontological theories: irrational? personal moral dilemmas engage public good (correspond to consequentialism) ethical principles (as de ned by kant) First stage: avoidance of pubishment (should not steal because he will go to jal) Conventional: morality of a speci c society, many people stay here; you obey the law even when law is inmoral. Third stage (post-conventional): questions and challenges the rules and laws, and thinks about what should be the right law. For women: preconventional is care for self, conventional is care for society, and postconventional is care for all human beings. Behavior - preceive event - reasoning - judgment - emotion.
