This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation both
through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the
natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and
functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables
us to influence some aspects of our biological make-up and for example could boost our
cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act compassionate. Such changes are likely to
facilitate the instilling of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our
quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible introduction to a set of
neuro-enhancement methods with a special focus on meditation techniques and explores how such
practices could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. The
book is suitable for anyone looking for a text discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from
a secular ethics perspective.
