Neuroscience, Virtue and Vice

This talk will explore some of the recent literature in the neuroscience of morality. It will show that often the claims made by neuroscientific research into morality are political in origin. This political dimension sometimes shapes the kinds of claims made about the neuroscience of prosocial and antisocial behavior, and opens the possiblity of the neuroscientific control of behavior.

Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop is a social and moral philosopher, teaching medical ethics and philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is also a physician. Professor Bishop tolds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics, and is the Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics.