Can pharmacology help enhance human morality?
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.052316.
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Abstract
A responsible person, a moral agent, takes account of their future behaviour and its likely impact upon others. Such an agent may choose to influence their future by exogenous means. If so, might pharmacology help them to do this? Is it doing so already? I argue that it is.
Medical subject headings
- Cognition
- Morals
- Psychotic Disorders