As John mentioned a while back, I’m starting a new podcast, The Life Of The Mind/Brain, examining issues that arise at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and society. The podcast is aimed at a general audience, but hopefully the issues discussed will be of interest to the Brains gang. …
The Review of Philosophy and Psychology has just released a call for papers for a special issue on Consciousness and Moral Cognition. In essence, the editors are interested in questions about how people’s attributions of consciousness affect their moral judgments. Do people think that they have a greater obligation to …
(cross-posted at the x-phi blog) I’ve finally written up a rough summary of some survey results I’ve been collecting for several years now, posted at the link below. This has been pretty informal so far, and I’d like to follow up with better studies using larger samples, as well as …
A (nontechnical) review of recent work in neuroethics.
Courtesy of Ben Ricker:“The BBC web site posted several thought experiments that are/were in vogue in ethics and requested votes on what you would do. Some food for thought. Check it out here. After you vote, you see the total tallys.”
Last week I had my first radio interview, thanks to a referral by Ron Munson. I was on a program (together with another guest) by Nevada Public Radio on whether robots are changing our identity and related issues, such as whether robots are likely to take over the world (as …
