Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.

• Main Authors: Fröding, Barbro (Author), Osika, Walter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Neurosciences.; Ethics.

This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through...