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Smarter than thou, holier than thou: The dynamic interplay between cognitive and moral enhancement
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The debate about the desirability of using drugs to enhance human skills encompasses cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, and moral capacities such as emotional empathy and a sense of fairness. These two strands of literature in bioethics have grown relatively independent from each other, and an implicit framing assumption has emerged suggesting that apparently morally neutral cognitive capacities and paradigmatically moral capacities are distinct and vary independently of each o...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in Pharmacology Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- OCT
- Pages:
- 1189
- Publication date:
- 2018-10-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-28
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1663-9812
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-02
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- Pavarini et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- Copyright © 2018 Pavarini, McKeown and Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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