Neuroethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intervening in the Brain

Walter Glannon is Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary, where he is associate professor of philosophy and associate professor of community health sciences. Previously, he was assistant professor in the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia and clinical ethicist at the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia. Before that, he was assistant professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University and clinical ethicist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

He is the author of Bioethics and the Brain and editor of Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.