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Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue de Jeffrey P. Bishop

Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue

Autor Jeffrey P. Bishop, M. Therese Lysaught, Andrew A. Michel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 dec 2023
This book offers a provocative analysis of the neuroscience of morality. Written by three leading scholars of science, medicine, and bioethics, it critiques contemporary neuroscientific claims about individual morality and notions of good and evil. Winner of a 2021 prize from the Expanded Reason Institute, it connects moral philosophy to neoliberal economics and successfully challenges the idea that we can locate morality in the brain.

Instead of discovering the source of morality in the brain as they claim to do, the popularizers of contemporary neuroscience are shown to participate in an understanding of human behavior that serves the vested interests of contemporary political economy. Providing evidence that the history of claims about morality and brain function reach back 400 years, the authors locate its genesis in the beginnings of modern philosophy, science, and economics. They further map this trajectory through the economic and moral theories of Francis Bacon, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and the Chicago School of Economics to uncover a pervasive colonial anthropology at play in the neuroscience of morality today.


The book concludes with a call for a humbler and more constrained neuroscience, informed by a more robust human anthropology that embraces the nobility, beauty, frailties, and flaws in being human.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350288485
ISBN-10: 1350288489
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 148 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: The Age of the Brain

Prelude to a Neuroscience of Morality: Of Sciences and Social Imaginaries

Part I: The Neuroscientific Narrative of Morality

1. The Neuroscientific Narrative of Vice
2. The Neuroscientific Narrative of Virtue
3. Popular (Neuro)Science and Other Political Economy Schemes

Interlude Between Neuroscience and Economic Science: Of Capitalists and Criminals

Part II: The Evolution of an Artifactual Being
4. The Neoliberal Narrative of Morality
5. Springs of Action and the Political Management of the Poor
6. Bacon, Smith, and the End of Virtue

Concluding Un(neuro)scientific Postlude: Between Beasts and Angels

Index

Recenzii

[A] well-argued book . This is a book that neuroscientists in particular may find helpful as a way of reflecting on the role of their own community in shaping how their findings are interpreted.
This book is a tour de force, offering a detailed analysis of the neuroscience of morality in relation to neoliberal economic thought. It is both a provocative critique of current neuroscience and a call for a more humane cultural conversation about what it means to be human. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the wider philosophical, theological or ethical implications of neuroscience.

A perceptive and illuminating work. Hidden within the technical theories of neuroscience, Bishop, Lysaught and Michel, uncover a moral language with disturbing implications for race, poverty, and many other areas of urgent political concern. It turns out much of what claims to be a "science" of the brain is, in fact, ideology.

Hypothesizing originally that neuroscience could be adduced to complicate virtue ethics, the authors discovered instead the embeddedness of neoliberal drivers and norms in the field itself. Deeply researched, immensely thoughtful and beautifully written, this work is a major contribution to understanding how the sciences mirror rather than bracket social and political principles of an age.
Neuroscience promises to unlock the secrets of the brain and release powerful forces for healing and well-being, albeit at the cost of erasing free will and moral responsibility. Biopolitics after Neuroscience powerfully traces the roots of this project in a social imaginary spawned by eighteenth-century political economy, linked with the rise of utilitarian moral theory, and bound up with policing the "undeserving" poor. The brain is imagined as a new invisible hand, the secrets of which can be unlocked through neuroscience and directed toward the formation of maximally efficient, productive economic citizens. Bishop, Lysaught and Michel's bold analysis should give readers pause about jumping on this latest Big Science bandwagon.
This is the sort of volume I have eagerly awaited. The authors skillfully describe how neoliberal values have shaped neuroscientific research. However, their argument transcends this specialty. After this book, no discipline-academic or otherwise-can afford to ignore how its practitioners may unknowingly serve their political and economic masters.
This book is a necessary read for anyone interested in theological ethics, bio-ethics, or the neurosciences. Bishop et al. weave a complex yet clear narrative of the underlying anthropologies which govern the contemporary political economy and its relation to the neurosciences.
With clarity and erudition, the authors have written an incredibly ambitious and creative book,
balancing a precise line of argumentation with an extensively researched critique of contemporary neuroscience which, they claim, can be traced to the founding thinkers of Western political economy.