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Neurofutures: Neuroscience and Responsibility

NEUROFUTURES: Neuroscience and Responsibility Melbourne CBD, Australia 3-4 December, 2019 Registrations close Monday 25 November. There are a wide range of ways in which neuroscience can invoke responsibility. The identification of differences in brain structure and function among some individuals may potentially have important implications for criminal and moral responsibility [...]

2019 International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting – Mapping Neuroethics: An Expanded Vision

Mapping Neuroethics: An Expanded Vision The 2019 Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (INS) will gather a diverse group of scholars, scientists, clinicians, and professionals dedicated to the responsible use of advances in brain science. Attendees will participate in intellectually stimulating and dynamic sessions that will explore neuroethics in [...]

Neuroscience & Society: Ethics, Laws, and Technology

Abstracts due: 7 June 2018 Advances in brain scanning and intervention technologies are transforming our ability to observe, explain, and influence human thought and behaviour. Potential applications of such technologies (e.g. brain-based pain detection in civil lawsuits, medications to help criminal offenders become less impulsive, prediction of future behaviour through [...]

Neuroeconomics of Simple Choice and Uncertainty

Coordinator: John O’Doherty California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. USA   Faculty: Peter Bossaerts, University of Melbourne, Australia Wolfram Schultz, Cambridge University, UK Catharine Winstanley, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Sophie Deneve, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Lesley Fellows, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA [...]

SCAN Students

SCAN Students Penn’s Graduate Certificate in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) program serves a wide variety of students, who have in common the need to understand the implications of contemporary neuroscience for their field of study. Though there are differences in the aspects of neuroscience that are most [...]

Call for Abstracts – Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future

Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future, 7 and 8 January 2016,  St Anne’s College, University of Oxford by the NeuroLaw Network group. The increasing production and use of human enhancement technologies, such as drugs to improve cognition and integrated neuroprosthetics, will challenge for existing legal frameworks. These and similar technologies are [...]

Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future

Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future, 7 and 8 January 2016,  St Anne’s College, University of Oxford by the NeuroLaw Network group. The increasing production and use of human enhancement technologies, such as drugs to improve cognition and integrated neuroprosthetics, will challenge for existing legal frameworks. These and similar technologies are [...]

SCAN Student Testimonials

"This morning, I spoke on a panel exclusively on the history of the brain sciences, chaired by John Tresch. There were quite some people in the room and during Q&A I realized that in some aspects we already talked about in class, I have more factual knowledge in / a [...]

Implicit Moral Attitudes, 2014 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics

Oxford University is pleased to announce their 2014 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics will be delivered by Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong of Duke University, as follows: Title: Implicit Moral Attitudes Abstract: Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology [...]

Narrative Perspectives: Neuroethics in film and literature

Neuroethics confronts us with profound questions about human existence: What does it mean to be human?  To be the same person over time?  What does it mean to be normal?  What is the good life?  Can we tell illusion from reality?  What makes an experience or a memory authentic?  [...]