Introduction (Nada Gligorov)

Happy New Year, Neuroethics & Law Blog readers! My name is Nada Gligorov and I am excited to be the guest blogger for the month of January.

For a bit of an introduction: I have a PhD in Philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and I am an associate professor in the Bioethics Program of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I am also a faculty member in the Bioethics Program of Clarkson University.

In my research thus far, I’ve focused on the interaction between commonsense and scientific conceptual frameworks. I recently published a monograph titled Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense (Studies in Brain and Mind, Springer). In the book, I argue against the view that common sense is static and characterize it as a theory that changes to accommodate influences from many domains, including neuroscience. I also evaluate how my characterization of common sense affects debates in neuroethics, especially when they revolve around concepts, such as free will, privacy, personal identity, pain, and death.

This month, I plan to blog about some of the arguments I’ve made in my book and other neuroethics related topics currently on my mind.

Comments

[Adam Kolber]

Welcome, Nada!