Agency and intervention
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Agency and intervention.
Novel ways to intervene on brain function raise questions about agency and responsibility. Here, I discuss whether direct brain interventions, and in particular, deep brain stimulation, pose a threat to agency in individual cases, or to our general conceptualization of what it is to be a responsible agent. While I do not currently see evidence that these interventions constitute a global challe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0215