Neil Levy 
Principal Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Research Director, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
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Neuroethics and Intuitions
As well as reflecting on important issues in applied ethics, neuroethics offers new opportunities for reflection on how we do ethics. Ideally, I suggest, these two branches of neuroethics should interact: we should attempt to resolve ethical issues in ways that are sensitive to findings on moral cognition. One goal of much research on moral cognition is the measurement of the reliability of the intuitions which play so central a role in moral enquiry. I will give some examples of the kinds of findings that suggest that some intuitions are unreliable. I will illustrate how this research might lead us to better assessment of issues in applied neuroethics by examining the question of the permissibility of cognitive enhancement.
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