Laura Specker Sullivan (2022) makes a fairly compelling case for the value of the perspectives of Buddhist practitioners in neuroethics. In this study, Tibetan Buddhist monks have been asked, among other things, whether consciousness, in brain-injured patients in a minimally conscious state, entails a duty to preserve life. In our view, some of the participants’ responses could be used to inform the bioethical debate on death determination.

For millennia, Buddhism as a contemplative science has been deeply concerned about solving the problems inherent to the “human condition,” as the Buddha calls it (Dalai Lama 2009), which include mo...

The target article aims to bridge the gap between secularized Buddhist theory and practical neuroethical matters through dialogue with Tibetan Buddhist monastics centered upon questions of personal...

Though she does not put it in these terms, Specker Sullivan’s (2022) article is an important and timely reminder that bioethics is a branch of philosophy; that philosophy is, literally, philo-sophy...