Overview
- 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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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