Listen Neuroethics
7,5 credits, Spring term 2011
Second-cycle course
This course offers a multi-disciplinary approach to questions concerning empirical brain sciences, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, ethics and the social sciences. The course will provide knowledge of neuroethical theories and concepts that apply to ethical questions arising in connection with developments in neuroscience and technology. It covers both applied and fundamental neuroethics and includes clinical perspectives.
The course is relevant for a broad range of students, graduate students and professionals, including fields such as health care, natural and social sciences, medicine, law, philosophy, psychiatry. It is open to anyone who is interested in the ethics of neuroscience.
Lecturers include prominent researchers in neuroscience and philosophy:
- Jean-Pierre Changeux: “Neuroscience of the arts”
- Stanislas Dehaene: “Human brain mechanisms of subliminal processing and conscious access”
- Etienne Koechlin: “Decision-making, executive control and the prefrontal cortex”
- Hugo Lagercrantz: “The making of the newborn brain: genetic, epigenetic and environmental mechanisms”
- Patricia Kuhl: “The Dawn of the Enlightened Brain – the scientist in the crib”
- Kathinka Evers: “Neuroethics”; “The neural basis of morality”; and “Free will and personal responsibility in the wake of neuroscience”
- Kai Kaila: “In Search for consciousness”
- Dan Larhammar: “The neural basis of religious experience”
- Maria Lindau: "Neuropsychological assessment of dementia"
More information and entry requirements
This is a second-cycle course for 7,5 credits.
Entry requirements: A minimum of four terms of basic university education (120 Credits/ECTS).
Course starts spring term 2011
Selection criteria
Number of academic credits.
Application and deadlines
Students at Swedish universities we accept late applications via studera.nu.
Apply here >
Contact:
Responsible teacher: Kathinka Evers
Course administrator: Calle Martinsson
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