Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience" 2019

The 8th Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience is taking place on February 18 - 22, 2019. It is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. The event is tailored for MSc and PhD students, but covers a range of topics of potential interest to other researchers, reflecting on the ethical and societal consequences of modern neuroscience.

Theoretical foundations, as well as practical and ethical aspects are addressed. Participants will benefit from a combination of lectures with group work and discussions, where they will put the learned content into practice.

Registration is now closed.

Scientific organisers: John-Dylan Haynes and Thomas Schmidt.

Keynote lecture: "Power and social intelligence" by Michael Pauen (HU-Berlin).

The school offers two parallel tracks: The Philosophical Track focuses on theoretical aspects, metaethics and moral responsibility. The Empirical Track offers theoretical foundations as well as a number of practical ethical aspects in neuroscience, such as animal research, clinical practice, deep brain stimulation, neuro-enhancement, brain reading, neuro-law, good scientific practice, and ethics committees.

The preliminary program can be found here or here as pdf.

Download the booklet Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience" 2019

Venues:

The lectures are hosted in different lecture halls of the Campus Nord of the Humboldt-Universität and Charité Medical School (access from Philippstr. 13, 10115 Berlin or from Luisenstrasse 56, 10117 Berlin). The first lecture on Monday will take place at Philippstr. 13 Haus 4, lecture hall 4 (Hörsaal 4) on the campus.
 
Link to the Map of the Campus
 
Accommodation: We cannot organise accommodation for participants. Please make your own arrangements. For a (non-complete) selection of budget accomodation options, please see here.
 
Organisation: Robert Martin and Dirk Mende
Contact: graduateprograms AT bccn-berlin.de
 
Additional information for Master's students of the program Computational Neuroscience
The Winter School coincides with the compulsory module "Ethical Issues and Implications for Society" for second year Master's students. For complete module description see the program structure here. Master's students of the program Computational Neuroscience have to attend the empirical track all the way through.

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