Meet the editor

Dr. Denis Larrivee is a visiting scholar at the Mind and Brain Institute, University of Navarra Medical School and Loyola University Chicago, and has held professorships at the Weill Cornell University Medical College, NYC, and Purdue University, Indiana. A former fellow at Yale University's Medical School he received the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's first place award for studies on photoreceptor degenerative and developmental

mechanisms. He is the editor of a recently released text on brain computer interfacing with IntechOpen Publishing and an editorial board member of the journals *Annals of Neurology and Neurological Sciences* (USA) and *EC Neurology* (UK). An International Neuroethics Society Expert he is the author of more than 80 papers and book chapters in such varied journals/venues as *Neurology and Neurological Sciences* (USA), *Journal of Neuroscience*, *Journal of Religion and Mental Health*, and IEEE Explore. In 2018 he was a finalist in the international Joseph Ratzinger Expanded Reason award.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Denis Larrivee*

*by Simon Smith*

**Section 3**

Issues

*by Ahmed Ammar*

Perspectives

**Preface III**

Introduction and Origins of Neuroethical Tension **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Metaphysical Sources of Value Uncertainty **15**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 35**

Neuro-Ethical Praxis Amidst Pluralistic Value Sourcing **49**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 75** Dynamic and Static Models of Body-Mind Approaches from Neurobiological

Terminality Advance Directives and Nursing Practice in Brazil: Bioethical

*Luciana Ferreira Da Silva, Ana Paula Da Silva, Larissa Da Silva Barcelos,* 

Values-Based Medicine (VsBM) and Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)

*by Jacqueline Resende Boaventura, Juliana Dias Reis Pessalacia,* 

*Carlos Eduardo Pereira Furlani and Adriano Menis Ferreira*

Introductory Chapter: Reconciling Neurobioethics through Nature's

Doing and Being: A Metaphysic of Persons from an Ontology of Action

Lens - Metaphysical Determinants of Subjectivity

Naturalizing Neuroethics? A Syncretic Approach

*by John R. Shook and James Giordano*

*by Shoichi Shiota and Michio Nomura*
