HPS 2356 - MORALITY AND THE MIND- BRAIN SCIENCES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the issues that the behavioral, cognitive, and brain sciences raise in relation to morality. The topics to be covered may be tilted towards ethical issues in these sciences (aka "neuroethics"), or the role of these sciences in understanding and explaining human morality ("moral psychology"). Topics in neuroethics may include neurological and brain enhancement, ethical and policy issues related to neuroimaging, mind control and "mindreading", and the neuroscience of free will and responsibility as these relate to criminal culpability. Examples of topics in moral psychology and moral cognition include neurodevelopment and the emergence of personhood, agency and the self, and the neural basis of moral judgements
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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