Table of Contents

1. The Neuroscience of Human Morality: Three Levels of Normative Implications (Jon Leefmann).- 2. Moral Responsibility and Perceived Threats from Neuroscience (Myrto Mylopoulos).- 3. Lessons for Ethics from the Science of Pain (Jennifer Corns and Robert Cowan).- 4. Two Theories of Moral Cognition (Julia Haas).- 5. Rethinking Moral Motivation: How Neuroscience Supports an Alternative to Motivation Internalism (Chris Zarpentine).- 6. The Reactive Roots of Retribution: Normative Implications of the Neuroscience of Punishment (Isaac Wiegman).- 7. Normative Implications of Neuroscience and Sociobiology – Intended and Perceived (Ullica Segerstrale).- 8. Nervous Norms (Matthew Ruble).- 9. Neuromodulation of the “Moral Brain” – Evaluating Bridges Between Neural Foundations of Moral Capacities and Normative Aims of the Intervention (Christian Ineichen and Markus Christen).- 10. Autistic Moral Agency and Integrative Neuroethics (Bongrae Seok).

About the Author

Geoffrey S. Holtzman received his BA in Cognitive Science from Vassar College in 2007 and his PhD in Philosophy from CUNY Graduate Center in 2014. After completing his dissertation on the experimental philosophy of faultless disagreement, he undertook a fellowship in neuroethics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, followed by a fellowship in moral psychology at Geisinger Health System. He most recently taught courses in neuroethics and moral psychology as a faculty member at Franklin & Marshall College.

Elisabeth Hildt is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Her research focus is on neuroethics, ethics of technology, and Science and Technology Studies. Before moving to Chicago, she was the head of the Research Group on Neuroethics/Neurophilosophy at the University of Mainz, Germany.