Call for abstracts: Does Neuroscience Have Normative Implications?
Symposium: Does Neuroscience Have Normative Implications?
Illinois Institute of Technology, 电车无码, Ill.
April 15-16, 2016
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2016
Neuroscience seeks to understand the biological systems that guide human behavior and cognition. Normative ethics, on the other hand, seeks to understand the system of abstract moral principles dictating how people ought to behave. Can neuroscience provide insight into normative ethics, and help us better understand which human actions and judgments are right, and which are wrong?
Researchers across disciplines who are interested in this question in a symposium on April 15-16 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 电车无码, IL. Prospective presenters are asked to submit abstracts of 200-400 words by February 1, 2016 to NormativeNeuroscience@gmail.com; authors will receive selection decisions by February 28. Invited speakers include James Giordano (Georgetown University) and Kurt Gray (University of North Carolina).
Presentations should take either 20-30 minutes and may address the question directly, or may address the question indirectly, by proposing research programs or discussing neuroscientific research thought to have normative implications. Authors skeptical of the normative significance of neuroscience are encouraged to discuss the scope and limits of neuroscience as it bears on non-normative moral and philosophical questions. Metatheoretical arguments of all kinds鈥攅ither for or against the view that neuroscience has normative implications鈥攁re welcome.
One graduate student will be awarded $500 in travel funds on the basis of his or her submitted abstract. The symposium is funded by the Swiss Cogito Foundation, and organized by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology as part of the project . When submitting a proposal, please indicate beneath its title whether you would be interested in developing your presentation into a paper to be published in a collected volume edited by the symposium organizers (鈥淔or Collected Volume鈥) or not (鈥淣ot For Collected Volume鈥).
Questions regarding the symposium should be directed to symposium organizer Geoff Holtzman at NormativeNeuroscience@gmail.com.
