Neuroethics Topics
I’m teaching a course in Neuroethics in Spring 2015, and below is a bucket list of topics:
- overview of neuroethics
- overview of neuroscience
- ethics of neuroscience vs neuroscience of ethics
- the construction of neuroimages
- genetic and environmental influences
- love and anti-love drugs
- memory modification
- sex and gender
- neuroeconomics
- neuromarketing
- neuroaesthetics
- happiness and the good life
- pain
- young brains, old brains
- trollyology, psychopathy, and moral judgment
- addiction, consciousness, control, and agency
- neurolaw and moral responsibility
- disease, disorder, impairment, and neurodiversity
- direct vs indirect interventions
- cognitive enhancement
- animals
- media’s portrayal of neuroscience
It’s not a graduate seminar, so I’m inclined to convey how rich and exciting this field is – by offering an overview of topics – rather than to bore my students to tears with an in-depth study of my favorite topics.
There’s already twenty two topics, and only fourteen weeks to the course. Still, please ping me if you can think of a topic that I’ve missed.