The University of Michigan Bioethics Discussion Group presents: Neuroethics - A Discussion on the Origins of Our Moral Situation Essays to consider: Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society Neuroethics: the practical and the philosophical Neuroethics for the new millennium For more information and to receive a copy of the [...]
19-21 September, 2018. University of Antwerp, Belgium Causality is one of the key concepts that require clarification if we want to understand scientific practice. Causal knowledge is useful for prediction and scientific explanation and is indispensable when we endeavour to intervene in the world. Causal relations are ubiquitous, but sometimes [...]
Papers presented at the Mind and Brain conference will be eligible for inclusion in a proceedings issue of the Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics (JCN). The Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published online, aimed at the cross-fertilization of research in neuro-, bio- and medical science and [...]
The past two decades have been a time of enormous growth in the study of adolescent brain development. Advances in the field have transformed our conceptualization of this phase of life and raised important questions about the implications of the developmental neuroscience of adolescence for policies and practices affecting young [...]
Autism is a mysterious and puzzling disorder. In 1943, American child psychiatrist Leo Kanner first published a paper describing 11 children who were highly intelligent but displayed “a powerful desire for aloneness” and “an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness.” He called this condition “early infantile autism.” Prior to that time, [...]