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<br> As neuroscience provides increasingly powerful investigative methods and therapeutic tools, so conceptual and ethical questions about the relationships between brain and mind become ever more pressing. Walter Glannon provides a highly informed and thoughtful account of several key issues, founded on the controversial but arresting and topical premise that 'the mind is not located in the brain': understanding how our brains enable consciousness requires us to lift our eyes above the neural horizon, to pay due attention to the bodies that sustain us, the physical world we inhabit and the cultural world we inherit. - Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter <br><p><br> Walter Glannon is one of the most interesting philosophers writing about the ethics of science today. This timely book will make an important contribution to both the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. <br>- John Harris, Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethic

<br> As neuroscience provides increasingly powerful investigative methods and therapeutic tools, so conceptual and ethical questions about the relationships between brain and mind become ever more pressing. Walter Glannon provides a highly informed and thoughtful account of several key issues, founded on the controversial but arresting and topical premise that 'the mind is not located in the brain': understanding how our brains enable consciousness requires us to lift our eyes above the neural horizon, to pay due attention to the bodies that sustain us, the physical world we inhabit and the cultural world we inherit. - Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter <br><p><br> Walter Glannon is one of the most interesting philosophers writing about the ethics of science today. This timely book will make an important contribution to both the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. <br>- John Harris, Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics, The University of Manchester <br><p><br> Walter Glannon's neuroethics work has always been marked by the <br>unusual combination of erudition, clarity, depth, balance, and common sense. Brain, Body, and Mind is a tour de force of those qualities and required reading for all neuroethicists and anyone interested in the philosophical and social implications of the new neuroscience. - Stephen J. Morse, U. Pennsylvania Law School & Psychiatry Department <br><p><br> Glannon's new book is a welcome extension of the work initiated in Bioethics and the Brain. There is some overlap in topics but the new work clarifies, deepens, and explores the key topics in neuroethics in ways that no other contemporary publication in this field is able to do. The philosophy is accessible, the scientific and clinical detail informative and the comment and analysis always sharp and to the point. Glannon does the humanities and the sciences a real service in this book and ought to be lauded for the scholarshi

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Walter Glannon, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary and author of BIOETHICS AND THE BRAIN OUP 2006.

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