ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of some key epistemological challenges, which, in their eyes, serious neuroethics scholars and practitioners should consider individually and collectively. Despite the great leaps forward, there are a number of meta-questions about the field of neuroethics, that is, epistemological issues that underlie the development of the field of neuroethics that are worth articulating explicitly. The chapter explores the existence of healthy pluralism with respect to the issues identified and indicates the implications of some of the available answers while inviting readers to make up their own minds about the appropriateness of the solutions provided so far. The rationale for a neuroethics may be less in any unique distinctive attribute but in an underlying pragmatist framework. Pragmatism brings defining epistemological and methodological commitments such as the development of a contextualized ethics and productive synergies between different disciplines capable of offering insights about human morality, including neuroscience.
