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: Neuroethics and Law

Business Ethics and the Brain

By Peter Reiner

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Beq There is a new paper entitled Business Ethics and the Brain out in Business Ethics Quarterly (although some readers might consider the journal title an oxymoron, there is clearly such a discipline in both the academic and business worlds) which examines the impact of the field of neuroethics upon business ethics.  The article itself consists of a reasonably astute review of our discipline, with conclusions drawn about its implications for ethical behavior in the commercial realm.  The conclusion of the paper sums it up nicely:


"Themes emerging from neuroethics research suggest that underlying the process 
of ethical decision-making are mechanisms that are different from other forms of 
thinking and conscious reasoning. Emotions appear to play an important part in the 
process, at least under certain conditions. Moreover, a preference for certain norma- 
tive approaches to ethical decision-making seem to be associated with structures 
and mechanisms within the human brain. 


Taken together, these themes point to a conception of ethical decision-making as 
a combination of both deliberate and unconscious processes. As tentative conclu- 
sions, these themes invite questions for future research and open opportunities for
collaborative work between moral philosophers and social scientists. In addition, 
these findings provide human resource managers and business ethics educators with 
starting points from which they can re-examine assumptions underlying current ap- 
proaches to business ethics training. Indeed, in reviewing the emerging scholarship 
in neuroethics, we find the potential to create constructive dialogue and engagement 
among the wide variety of scholars who are passionate about business ethics." 


Full reference: Rommel Salvador and Robert G. Folger, Business Ethics Quarterly 19(1), 1-31 (2009)

Hat tip to Value Competition blog

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).

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