Winston Chiong / is on Nostr

Neurologist | neuroscientist | ethicist. Director, UCSF Bioethics. Decision neuroscience, neuroethics, aging, dementia

http://decisionlab.ucsf.edu

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2023-10-24 20:28:10

Sunny day. #chihuahua #corgi #DogsOfMastodon
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2023-10-01 04:20:26

Did anyone else find "The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers" to be a really weird framing for the #nytimes piece on the Gino/Data Colada affair, since the Data Colada bloggers are also very distinguished academics who are also professors at highly prestigious institutions?

2023-10-01 04:20:26

2023-09-27 03:48:00

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@npub16nf…q6as The amazing and troubling thing about this piece is how it links a single person's strange, pathological psychological makeup to structures that we now all live in and are largely resigned to (indeed, that many perceive as normal).

2023-09-20 13:44:35

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@npub1kmk…mtuy Was just listening to this interview with Jennifer Egan in which she describes growing up in San Francisco and never seeing a person sleeping outside. As someone here now (since the 90s) that was astonishing. https://www.wnyc.org/story/jennifer-egan-discusses-solution-chronically-homeless/

2023-09-20 13:44:35

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2023-09-14 16:26:07

Fascinating read! Thomas Nagel on a new bio of J.L. Austin and his previously-unknown career as a WWII intelligence officer responsible for D-Day preparation, plus possible influences on his scholarly career and Oxford ordinary language philosophy https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n17/thomas-nagel/leader-of-the-martians

2023-07-14 02:14:52

Proud to share two new papers from the lab last week, reflecting the two senses of the term #neuroethics :
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-023-01635-y
The first, led by Tobias Haeusermann, addresses ethical considerations in rapid and novel treatments in #psychiatry, such as #psychedelics, #ketamine, and #neuromodulatory technologies. This overview focuses on 3 specific domains of ethical concern: informed consent, the role of expectancy in clinical response, and distributive justice.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023047060
The second, led by Rea Antoniou, empirically explores two contrasting models of #utilitarian moral reasoning: a "dual-process model" based on an emotion/cognition contrast, and a "two-dimensional model" (yes, I know) suggesting dissociable components within utilitarian judgment. We found support for elements of both models, and interpret these findings in terms of a modified synthesis of both models:
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