March 01, 2003
Neuroethics: Summer 2003 faculty seminar
This year’s Faculty Ethics Seminar theme is “Neuroethics.” We wish to bring together neuroscientists who have an interest in ethics, and persons with considerable background in ethics who have an interest in neuroscience.
The seminar this year will begin Wednesday, May 14 and proceed through the following week (there are eight sessions in all). Each daily session lasts three hours, and we alternate mornings and afternoons. Participants usually number about 15.
We want to explore the following questions:
- How, if at all, are traditional ethical questions and ethical paradigms (especially deontologism, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, etc.) being reformulated by advances and discoveries in neuroscientific investigations of moral reasonaing?
- How philosophically credible or significant is the neuroscientific exploration of moral reasoning?
- Is neuroscience changing our basic understanding of how humans shape and understand their moral environments? What are the most stimulating and important areas of change?
- Given what the neurosciences are discovering, what are the implications for public policy bearing on justice (e.g., retribution, punishment, restitution, etc.)? What are the implications of all this for the teaching of ethics?
- How, if at all, is the traditional problem of free will versus determinism being reformulated?
Readings will primarily be from Mind and Morals: Essays on Cognitive Science and Ethics (edited by Larry May, Marilyn Friedman and Andy Clark) and The Churchlands and Their Critics (edited by Robert McCauley).
Participants will receive a $400 stipend for their participation plus the cost of the texts. Interested faculty should contact John Banja at (404) 712-4804 or email him at jbanja@emory.edu.
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