| | | Name: | Elisa A. Hurley, PhD | Title: | Greenwall Fellow Class of 2008 | Contact: | The Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Biographical Sketch | | Elisa A. Hurley earned her PhD in Philosophy at Georgetown University, and her BA in Philosophy magna cum laude at Brown University. In her doctoral research, Dr. Hurley has pursued solutions to several philosophical puzzles about how feelings and conceptual content come together to form a distinct category of mental states, “the emotions.” Her solutions to these puzzles turn on the practical contributions that emotions make to the way we conduct our lives, particularly with respect to the values we commit ourselves to. Dr. Hurley has taught courses at Georgetown on subjects such as Ethics, Values, and the Emotions. She has also assisted with research in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutions of Health (NIH). In her current scholarship, Dr. Hurley seeks to examine the potential impact of cognitive neuroscience on conceptions of moral agency and on moral agency itself, specifically through the effects of neuro-interventions – whether intended as therapy or enhancement – upon emotional capacities. |
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