Programme and Potential Themes
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The conference will be divided into sessions depending on the abstracts received. Potential themes may include:
Neuroscience of ethics
- Liberty, self, free will, autonomy, and moral responsibility
- Body/Brain/Mind
- The neuroscientific basis of ethical thought and behaviour
- Neuroscientific enhancement for moral responsibility
- Neuroscience and crime
- Neuroscientific interventions in the criminal justice system
- What goes on in the head of a criminal?
- Bad or Mad?
- Neuroscience of belief, prayer, religion, spirituality
- Dreams
- Memory
- Phantom sensations
- Gender and sexuality
The ethics of neuroscience
- Psychopharmacological enhancement (e.g. attention, memory or mood)
- Concepts of normality and disease
- “Mental” illness
- Neurosurgery/Psychosurgery
- Neuroscience of autism, depression, suffering, addictions, trauma, aggression, alexithymia,
- Locked in syndrome
- Neuroscience and end of life care
- Deep-brain stimulation or brain implants (and various applications)
- Nanotechnology and neural prostheses
- Neuroimaging and ‘Brain reading’
- Therapeutic and non-therapeutic uses (including military uses)
- The commercialization of cognitive neuroscience
- Neuroscience and the courts
- Modification of brain function
- Neuroscience and the law
- Neuromarketing
- Questions of fair access and social justice
Convenors / Curatori
Rev. Dr Raymond Zammit
Capo Dipartimento, Dipartimento di Teologia Morale, Università di Malta.
Prof. Pietro Grassi
ISSRA all'Apollinare, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Roma.
