{"id":83660,"date":"2018-10-17T04:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/what-can-neuroscience-tell-us-about-ethics"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:18:17","slug":"what-can-neuroscience-tell-us-about-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/what-can-neuroscience-tell-us-about-ethics","title":{"rendered":"What can neuroscience tell us about ethics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-can-neuroscience-tell-us-about-ethics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today on The Neuroethics Blog is a post by Adina L. Roskies, Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Cognitive <i>Science<\/i> Program and Helman Family Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College, entitled \u201cWhat can neuroscience tell us about ethics?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By Adina L. Roskies Image courtesy of Bill Sanderson, Wellcome Collection What can neuroscience tell us about ethics? Some say nothing \u2013 ethics is a normative discipline that concerns the way the world should be, while neuroscience is normatively insignificant: it is a descriptive science which tells us about the way the world is. This seems in line with what is sometimes called \u201cHume\u2019s Law\u201d, the claim that one cannot derive an ought from an is (Cohon, 2018). This claim is contentious and its scope unclear, but it certainly does seem true of demonstrative arguments, at the least. Neuroethics, by its name, however, seems to suggest that neuroscience is relevant for ethical thought, and indeed some have taken it to be a fact that neuroscience has delivered ethical consequences. It seems to me that there is some confusion about this issue, and so here I\u2019d like to clarify the ways in which I think neuroscience can be relevant to ethics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theneuroethicsblog.com\/2018\/10\/what-can-neuroscience-tell-us-about.html\">http:\/\/www.theneuroethicsblog.com\/2018\/10\/what-can-neuroscie...about.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on The Neuroethics Blog is a post by Adina L. Roskies, Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Cognitive Science Program and Helman Family Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College, entitled \u201cWhat can neuroscience tell us about ethics?\u201d By Adina L. Roskies Image courtesy of Bill Sanderson, Wellcome Collection What can neuroscience tell us about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83669,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83660\/revisions\/83669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}