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Forget Me Not: The Neuroethical Case Against Memory Manipulation

Forget Me Not: The Neuroethical Case Against Memory Manipulation

Depergola, Peter A., II
Magill, Gerard

Hardcover

Series: Cognitive Science and Psychology

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1622733649
ISBN13: 9781622733644
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Jan 31 2018
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The first philosophical monograph on the ethics of memory manipulation (MM), Forget Me Not: The Neuroethical Case Against Memory Manipulation contends that any attempt to directly and intentionally erase episodic memories poses a grave threat to the human condition that cannot be justified within a normative moral calculus. Grounding its thesis in four evidential effects - namely, (i) MM disintegrates autobiographical memory, (ii) the disintegration of autobiographical memory degenerates emotional rationality, (iii) the degeneration of emotional rationality decays narrative identity, and (iv) the decay of narrative identity disables one to seek, identify, and
act on the good - DePergola argues that MM cannot be justified as a morally licit practice insofar as it disables one to seek, identify, and act on the good. A landmark achievement in the field of neuroethics, this book is a welcome addition to both the scholarly and professional community in philosophical and clinical bioethics.

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