“The Moral Brain Conference was one of the most fascinating and provocative events I have ever attended.
I recently returned from New York where I attended the NYU 2012 Bioethics Conference: The Moral Brain organized by the NYU Center for Bioethics in collaboration with the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. The conference took a multi-disciplinal approach to the issue of morality as it pertains to cognitive function and the question of whether or not our moral sense could ever be enhanced at the biological level. The event brought together an impressive number of key thinkers and academic leaders, including neuroscientists, bioethicists, and philosophers. In fact, this conference featured one of the strongest itinerary of speakers I have seen in quite some time.” .”

“Professional ethicists tend to behave no better than non-ethicists. Ethicists sometimes react to my work by saying “My job is to theorize about ethics, not to live the moral life.” What should we make of this response?”Continue reading the discussion here and here.

Here an article from a great blog site, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, that answers the question.