Publications of Ebrahim Moosa
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@article{fds211129,
Author = {E. Moosa},
Title = {Translating Neuroethics: Reflections from Muslim
Ethics},
Journal = {Science and Engineering Ethics},
Volume = {18},
Number = {2},
Pages = {519-528},
Year = {2012},
Month = {Fall},
ISSN = {1353-3452},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5884},
Keywords = {Neuroethics • Muslim ethics • Islam • Islamic
law • Islamic ethics • Neuroscience},
Abstract = {Abstract Muslim ethics is cautiously engaging developments
in neuroscience. In their encounters with developments in
neuroscience such as brain death and functional magnetic
resonance imaging procedures, Muslim ethicists might be on
the cusp of spirited debates. Science and religion perform
different kinds of work and ought not to be conflated.
Cultural translation is central to negotiating the complex
life worlds of religious communities, Muslims included.
Cultural translation involves lived encounters with
modernity and its byproduct, modern science. Serious ethical
debate requires more than just a mere instrumental encounter
with science. A robust Muslim approach to neuroethics might
require an emulsion of religion and neuroscience, thought
and body, and body and soul. Yet one must anticipate that
Muslim debates in neuroethics will be inflected with Muslim
values, symbols and the discrete faith perspectives of this
tradition with meanings that are specific to people who
share this worldview and their concerns.},
Doi = {10.1007/s11948-012-9392-5},
Key = {fds211129}
}