About the Author

James Beauregard is a clinical neuropsychologist and Lecturer in the Psychology Doctoral Program at Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, where he teaches Biological Bases of Behavior and Psychology Health Care Ethics. His research interests are in neuroethics and personalist philosophy, including the intersection of these two areas as they impact our understandings of personhood. He is a member of the Spanish Personalist Association, on the board of the International Personalist Conference, and a member of the British Personalist Forum and the International Neuroethics Society. In 2021, he was asked to serve on the Committee on Neuroethics at the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Reviews

The second volume of James Beauregard's "Personalist Neuroethics" is a timely and much-needed contribution to the current conversation on personhood, ethical decision-making, and neuroscience. Dr. Beauregard brings to this book a remarkable range of areas of expertise, which gives him the ability to bring together personalist philosophy, neuroscience, medical ethics, and an attention to media studies, military ethics, and the law. He offers us a vision of the person as unified, integrated wholes, a holistic vision with a clear place for scientific understanding of the brain and the principles of neuroethics, but without the reductionisms that often attend medical ethical thinking. His vision attends carefully to the deep dignity of persons, to personal responsibility, and to justice and the common good. The result is a deep and wide-ranging approach to neuroethics that is at once philosophically rigorous and immediately practically applicable.Prof. Dr. Mark K. SpencerUniversity of St. ThomasAssistant Editor, American Catholic Philosophical QuarterlyAcademic Advisor, The Hildebrand Project

Contemporary neuroscience urgently needs serious ethical reflection based on a sound philosophical method and a non-reductionist vision of human being. Beauregard´s personalist neuroethics is singularly fitted to meet this demand as it is based on the rich personalist philosophical tradition and is inspired by von Hildebrand´s phenomenological material value ethics.Prof. Martin CajthamlDepartment of Philosophy and Patrology, Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of TheologyPalacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

"Personalist Neuroethics" is a fascinating exploration of the personalist philosophy with an emphasis on important practical implications. Thorough and comprehensive in its discussion, it is a major work in this field and essential reading for those who want to understand how the person relates to many facets of life and living.Andrew Newberg, MD best selling author of "How God Changes Your Brain."Professor, Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional SciencesProfessor, Department of RadiologyResearch Director, Marcus Institute of Integrative HealthThomas Jefferson University

Clear, coherent, and complete, "Personalist Neuroethics: Practical Neuroethics. Volume 2" offers a solid foundation for neuroscience in personalist philosophy. Particularly practical in its detailed presentation of issues where neuro- intersects with contemporary concerns, including the dialogue with faith. Mary Clare Smith, SND, PhD

A much-needed book that bridges the gap between personalist philosophy and practical neuromedicine. Too often, conversations in bioethics begin from unexamined materialistic assumptions about the human person, leaving the dignity of the person something of a mystery. Beauregard's treatment, however, gives personal dignity firm philosophical grounding. He manages to do this, however, without drifting away from a concrete basis in contemporary science and medical practice.Dr. D.T. ShefflerProfessor of Philosophy, Memoria CollegeAssociated Scholar, The Hildebrand Project