Neuroethics at 15: Keep the Kant but Add More Bacon

Neuroethics are more than the bioethics of neuroscience

In neurosciences, punctual paradigms of knowledge, which also require more specialized attention, are introduced. The enormous display of scientific information in this area, technological development and its Translational impact have surpassed both our capacity to regulate and the dimension of the decisions centered on the wellbeing of the patient. That is why civil society and a meeting of jo...

Keep nibbling at the edges.

Alifelong passion for natural history and an aptitude for chemistry had led me to study for a B.Sc. in biochemistry at University College London (UCL) from 1963 to 1966. It was during this period that the allosteric theory of enzyme regulation was put forward by JacquesMonod, Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Francois Jacob at the Institute Pasteur. This explained how the end products of a biosynthetic...

Neuroethics for the New Millenium

plate how progress in each will affect the other. The past several months have seen heightened interest The Ethics of Neuroscience in the intersection of ethics and neuroscience. In the The ethics of neuroscience can be roughly subdivided popular press, the topic grabbed headlines in a May into two groups of issues: (1) the ethical issues and issue of The Economist (2002) and was featured in a ...

Kant V4

The software package KANT V4 for computations in algebraic number elds is now available in version 4. In addition a new user interface has been released. We will outline the features of this new software package.

kant on the embodied cognition