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Friday, November 13, 2015

Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

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Emerging Technology From the arXiv MIT Technology Review Originally published October 22, 2015 Here is an excerpt: One way to approach...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Neuroscientific Prediction and Free Will: What do ordinary people think?

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By Gregg D. Caruso Psychology Today Blog Originally published October 26, 2015 Some theorists have argued that our knowledge of the brai...

The Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler

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By Matt Ford The Atlantic Originally published October 24, 2015 Here is an excerpt: The strongest argument for removing Hitler from hi...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Putting a price on empathy: against incentivising moral enhancement

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By Sarah Carter J Med Ethics  doi:10.1136/medethics-2015-102804 Abstract Concerns that people would be disinclined to voluntari...

Tinkering with consciousness: Morality & Enhancement

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Daniel Faggella TedX Published on Dec 8, 2014 This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Federal judge says neuroscience is not ready for the courtroom--yet

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By Kevin Davis ABA Journal Originally published October 20, 2015 Here is an excerpt: Rakoff, who long has had an interest in neuroscie...

Neuromodulation of Group Prejudice and Religious Belief

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C. Holbrook, K. Izuma, C, Deblieck, D. Fessler, and M. Iacoboni Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2015) doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv10...
Monday, November 9, 2015

When Students Become Patients, Privacy Suffers

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By Charles Ornstein ProPublica Originally published October 23, 2015 Here is an excerpt: Yale Health’s website informs parents that th...

The Illusion of Free Will

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Originally published on Jul 7, 2015 Daniel Do asked us to reconsider whether we are the authors of our own thoughts. Daniel is a student...