Professor Rebeka Rice of the Philosophy Department at Seattle Pacific University, US, examines the paradoxical implications of brain transplants. [see previous article in this series] The 2012 Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship presents an entity called ‘Bob’ (pictured) Bob is a human being, albeit a hypothetical one. “Perhaps a better way […]
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Brain transplants : the implications [4 of n]
Amongst the formidable complexities that would be involved in transplanting someone’s brain, lurks an enigmatic question – if it were yours, would ‘you’ go with your brain? Such questions have been examined by professor Fredrik Svenaeus, of Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden. The professor has a chapter in ‘The Body as Gift, Resource, and Commodity’, ( […]
Brain transplants:the implications [3 of 3]
Lefty and Righty Are we our brains? Or, put another way, if your brain was transplanted into another body, would ‘You’ go with the brain? Answering the troubling question “Who survives a brain transplant?” becomes doubly complicated if the transplanted human brain were to be divided into two parts – in so-called ‘Fission’ thought-experiments. Scholarly […]
Brain transplants:the implications [2 of 3]
Our brains are not us Are we our brains? Or, put another way, if your brain was transplanted into another body, would ‘You’ go with the brain? For an alternative perspective on this fundamentally puzzling question turn to Walter Glannon, associate professor of philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at […]
Brain transplants:the implications [1 of 3]
Are We Our Brains? Although human brain transplant operations may oneday become a routine procedure, they have until now only been successfully performed in the heads of science fiction writers – and, of course, philosophers, who ask questions such as ‘Are we our brains?’ Or, put another way, if your brain was transplanted into another […]