Neuroethics

Neuroethics focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications that arise from applications of neuroscience research, knowledge and technology into medical practice and health and social policy. Neuroethics encompasses the ethics of neuroscience, and the neuroscience of ethics. It also includes ethical issues involved in other sciences and pseudosciences dealing with the mind, as well as issues related to the philosophy of mind. Some neuroethics subjects are not fundamentally different from those encountered in bioethics. Nevertheless, as neuroethics deals with the human brain, which is the organ of the mind, it illuminates in unprecedented ways traditional philosophical problems, such as the nature of free will, moral responsibility, self-deception, and person identity.