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Neuroethics requires collaboration between neuroscience and philosophy, not substitution. Understanding the neurobiology of moral agency reveals human vulnerability, necessitating its recognition and mitigation.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy

Background:

  • Neuroethics explores the intersection of neuroscience and ethics.
  • Current debates exist on whether neuroscience can replace philosophical ethics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the potentials and limits of neuroethics.
  • To advocate for a collaborative model of neuroethics (neuroethics as cooperation).
  • To critique attempts at neuroethics as substitution.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis of ontological and anthropological foundations.
  • Exploration of Aristotelian hylomorphic conception.
  • Examination of the dual aspects of neuroethics: ethics of neuroscience and neuroscience of ethics.

Main Results:

  • Neuroscience and ethics should collaborate with mutual respect for their distinct identities.
  • Neuroscience cannot replace philosophical ethics.
  • An Aristotelian hylomorphic framework supports cooperative neuroethics.
  • Cooperative neuroethics involves an ethics of neuroscience (guiding research ethically) and a neuroscience of ethics (understanding neurobiological bases of morality).

Conclusions:

  • Neurobiological bases of moral agency enable but do not determine behavior.
  • Studying these bases highlights the inherent vulnerability of moral agents.
  • This vulnerability, rooted in human nature, requires recognition and mitigation.