Moral Choices for Our Future Selves
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-64095-8 (ISBN)
The author connects the scientific understanding of the neurobehavioral processes at the core of individuals’ perceptions of their future selves with the philosophical reflection on individuals’ moral relationship with their future selves. She delineates a descriptive theory of the perception of the future self that is based on empirical evidence and that systematizes and integrates the current theoretical literature. She then argues for the morality of prudence and interprets diachronic self-regarding decisions as decisions between two agents— the earlier and later selves—that belong to the realm of intergenerational ethics, which regulates the relationship between contemporary people and future generations. Finally, the author provides a moral theory of prudence based on respect for one’s agency. This theory identifies what the present and the future selves owe to one another in diachronic self-regarding decisions.
Moral Choices for Our Future Selves will be of interest to scholars and students working in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
Eleonora Viganò is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her work focuses on self-regarding morality, the neuroscience of ethics, and digital ethics.
Introduction
Chapter 1. How do we perceive our future selves? The neurobehavioral basis of one’s perception of the future self
Chapter 2. What is the nature of the relationship in which we stand with our future selves? Practical and moral issues of one’s perception of the future self
Chapter 3. How should we treat our future selves? The moral requirements of prudence to one’s present and future selves
Chapter 4. How does the Moral Theory of Prudence work in practice? The application of the theory to advance healthcare directives in dementia
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.09.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Focus on Philosophy |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 249 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-64095-3 / 0367640953 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-64095-8 / 9780367640958 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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