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Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.

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  1. Barbro Fröding

    1. Department of Philosophy and History, Royal institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Walter Osika

    1. Department of Clinical Neuroscience Center for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Discusses the potential, and the positive effects, of regular meditation both from the perspective of the individual and the broader society suggesting that it could help promote a more ethical social climate
  • Offers a fresh take by connecting meditation to both improved cognitive flexibility and more responsible decision-making
  • Takes a truly inter-disciplinary approach, which explores both the neurological and the ethical and philosophical dimensions of meditation
  • Written from a secular ethics point of view, making it suitable for large group of readers, including both lay-people and academics from various disciplines
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Neurophysiological Background

    • Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
    Pages 23-39

  4. The Methods

    • Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
    Pages 41-61

  5. Cognitive Flexibility

    • Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
    Pages 63-72

  6. Some Key Elements of Virtue Ethics

    • Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
    Pages 73-98

  7. Conclusions

    • Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
    Pages 99-110
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About this book

This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics perspective.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy and History, Royal institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

    Barbro Fröding

  • Department of Clinical Neuroscience Center for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Walter Osika

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.

  • Authors: Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23517-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23516-5Published: 11 September 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23517-2Published: 31 August 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2211-8101

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 110

  • Topics: Ethics, Neurosciences

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