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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Fröding, Barbro (Συγγραφέας), Osika, Walter (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• CHAPTER 1 – Introduction
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 A new situation
• 1.3 From bad to worse
• 1.4 How to handle matters better: skills required to manage risks
• 1.5 Can we acquire the skills?
• 1.6 Enhancement methods
• 1.7 Which cognitive capacities?
• References
• CHAPTER 2 – The neurophysiological background
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Neuroplasticity
• 2.3 Attention
• 2.4 Mind-wandering
• 2.5 Emotional regulation
• 2.6 Mental training –meditation
• 2.7 Some challenges with meditation practice and research
• References
• CHAPTER 3 – The Methods
• 3.1 How to improve
• 3.2 Defining cognitive enhancement
• 3.3 Three methods
• 3.4 Pharmaceuticals, hormones and neurotransmitters
• 3.5 Technology
• 3.6 Possible effects of meditation techniques and mental training
• 3.7 Computer games
• Combining methods
• References
• CHAPTER 4 – Cognitive flexibility
• 4.1 How does cognitive flexibility relate to meditation?
• 4.2 Cognitive flexibility 4.3 Why is it good to be more cognitively flexible?
• 4.4 Improved cognitive flexibility can translate to better decision-making
• 4.5 Smarter but not nicer
• 4.6. Summary
• References
• CHAPTER 5 –Some key elements of virtue ethics
• Part A: A brief introduction to virtue ethics
• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2 A suitable moral framework
• 5.3 The beginnings of virtue ethics
• 5.4 What is the virtuous life and what is so good about it?
• 5.5 In summary
• Part B: From meditation to the good life
• 5.6 Training for virtue
• 5.7 Creating moral experts
• 5.8 Enhancement as an enabler
• 5.9 Enhancement as a way to increase commitment
• 5.10 Helpful but not enough
• 5.11 The role of epistemic virtues
• 5.12 Some modern or new epistemic virtues that might be useful
• 5.12 From core capacities to functional change and decision-making
• 5.13 Commonalities and compatibility
• 5.14 Conclusion
• References
• CHAPTER 6 – Conclusions
• 6.1 Summary
• 6.2 Combinations
• 6.3 Moral enhancement – different takes
• 6.4 The role of embedding structures
• 6.5 Concluding remarks
• References.