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oapen-20.500.12657-306252024-03-25T09:51:39Z Chapter 11 Moral Neuroenhancement Douglas, Thomas D. Earp, Brian Savulescu, Julian motives moral improvement behaviour character individuals motives moral improvement behaviour character individuals Akrasia Augmentative Empathy Ethics Morality Mos maiorum Neuroenhancement Neurotechnology Psilocybin thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services::MBPK Mental health services In recent years, philosophers, neuroethicists, and others have become preoccupied with “moral enhancement.” Very roughly, this refers to the deliberate moral improvement of an individual’s character, motives, or behavior. In one sense, such enhancement could be seen as “nothing new at all” (Wiseman, 2016, 4) or as something philosophically mundane: as G. Owen Schaefer (2015) has stated, “Moral enhancement is an ostensibly laudable project. . . . 2019-10-18 14:17:05 2020-04-01T13:03:18Z 2018-02-28 23:55 2019-10-18 14:17:05 2020-04-01T13:03:18Z 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2019-10-18 14:17:05 2020-04-01T13:03:18Z 2020-04-01T13:03:18Z 2018 chapter 644654 OCN: 1030820993 9781315708652 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30625 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 644654.pdf Taylor & Francis The Routledge handbook of neuroethics Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 6fc18836-6d40-4896-bf56-782f30cd9c99 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781315708652 Wellcome Routledge 21 1 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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In recent years, philosophers, neuroethicists, and others have become preoccupied with “moral enhancement.” Very roughly, this refers to the deliberate moral improvement of an
individual’s character, motives, or behavior. In one sense, such enhancement could be seen
as “nothing new at all” (Wiseman, 2016, 4) or as something philosophically mundane: as
G. Owen Schaefer (2015) has stated, “Moral enhancement is an ostensibly laudable project. . . .
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