Walter Glannon (University of Calgary)

The Neuroethics of Memory

From Total Recall to Oblivion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using a framework informed by neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, this book addresses a range of metaphysical, ethical, and legal issues in modelling and modifying human memory. Its arguments and conclusions will interest clinical neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and legal theorists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 226mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781107583412
• ISBN-10: 1107583411
• Artikelnr.: 55524010

Autorenporträt

Walter Glannon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has served as a clinical ethicist at three different hospitals and has held academic appointments at McGill University and the University of British Columbia. He is also the author or editor of ten books, including Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Memory systems and memory stages
2. Agency, identity and dementia
3. Anesthesia, amnesia and recall
4. Disorders of memory content and interventions
5. Disorders of memory capacity and interventions
6. Legal issues involving memory
Epilogue. The future of memory.