Neuroethics and Law

Adam Kolber, who teaches law at the University of San Diego School of Law, and who is currently teaching at Princeton University, studies neuroethics. You might well ask. Well, folks have always been trying to mess with our heads one way or another — just ask any of my students — and now there needs to be some greater discussion of ethical standards to hamper, if not to restrain, some of the more enthusiastic and direct neural intruders. And we need to think about how to understand and use what we’re learning about neural functioning.

His blog, the Neuroethics and Law Blog, makes for some interesting if disturbing reading. Fir example, there’s a recent post on remote detection of brain activity, just the sort of thing to get Homeland Security person’s prefrontal cortex all excited.