Neuroethics: New Ways of Investigating the Brain

Neuroethics: New Ways of Investigating the Brain è il titolo della 12th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics e della 7th Conference of the Italian Society for Neuroethics (SINe) che si terrà, in collaborazione con l’International Neuroethic Society (INS), a maggio dal 13 al 21 maggio 2021.

L’evento,  che quest’anno sarà online, si svilupperà in più giornate e sarà articolato come segue.

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13 MAGGIO 2021

16:45 Opening Remarks and Announcement of the SINe Prize Winners

17:00-18:30 Invited talks

• Chair: Matteo Cerri (University of Bologna)
• Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University) – Inner Workings of Channelrhodopsins and Brains: A New Way of Looking at the Mind in Action
• Rebecca Roache (University of London) – On Passive Aggresion

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18:30-19:30 Parallel session – Contributed papers

Room A

Chair: Michela Balconi

– G. Melis, G. Sartori, C. Scarpazza, Eyewitnesses Evaluation: Should the Legal Criteria Be Adjusted basing on Scientific Results?

– A. Miolla, M. Cardaioli, C. Scarpazza, M. Monaro, N. Navarin, G. Sartori, Words Lie, Your Face Doesn’t

– C. Scarpazza, L. Masiero, E. Bortolato, C. Cavaliere, J. Pezzaioli, L. Finos, G. Sartori, Different Neural Substrate in Developmental and Acquired Pedophilia: Preliminary Results

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Room B

Chair: Matteo Cerri

– E. Lasater-Guttmann, The Supposed Irreversibility of Brain Death

– N. Gligorov, Is Death Irreversible?

– F. Zilio, Unlocking the Brain. Neuroimaging, Disorders of Consciousness, and the Role of Neuroethics

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Room C

Chair: Andrea Lavazza

– G. Cevolani, D. Coraci, Reverse Inference and Bayesian Confirmation in Cognitive Neuroscience

– F. Calzavarini, G. Cevolani, M. Viola, Abductive Reasoning in Cognitive Neuroscience: Weak and Strong Reverse Inference

– R. Fumagalli, A Reformed Division of Labour for the Science of Well-Being

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19:45-20:45 International Neuroethics Society Lecture

Nita Farahany (Duke University, INS President) – Title TBA

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14 MAGGIO 2021

17:00-18:30 Invited talks

• Chair: Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University – Tufts University)
• Derk Pereboom (Cornell University) – Wrongdoing, Freedom, and the Moral Emotions
• Thomas Søbirk Petersen (Roskilde University) – Neuro-doping and Fairness
• Jesper Ryberg (Roskilde University) – Neurointervention, Crime Prevention and the Ideal/non-ideal Distinction

18:30-19:30 Parallel session – Contributed papers 

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Room A

Chair: Giulia Piredda

– M. Facchin, Markov Blankets Do not Rule out the Extended Mind Hypothesis

– G. Zanotti, Scientistic Stances and Physicalism in the Philosophy of Mind

– M. Degano, Dreyfus meets 4E Cognition

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Room B

Chair: Raffaella I. Rumiati

– L. Angioletti, F. Cassioli, M. Balconi, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) between Good and Evil: Possible Neuroethical Implications for Individuals and Society              

– G. Fronda, M. Balconi, How Ethics and Moral Cognition Influence Decision-Making in Professional Fields: The Contribution of Neuroscience

– C. Vicario, R. Rafal, G. Di Pellegrino, C. Lucifora, A. M. Salehinejad, M. A. Nitsche, A. Avenanti, Indignation for Moral Violations Suppresses the Tongue Motor Cortex

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Room C

Chair: Sarah Songhorian

– S. Zipoli Caiani, G. Ferretti, On Pragmatic Modes of Presentation

– G. Ferretti, Why there is no such thing as Affordance Perception

– M. Carrick, Thresholds, Inexpressibility, and Personhood

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20 MAGGIO 2021

17:00-18:30 Invited talks

• Chair: Massimo Filippi (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University – Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital)
• Federica Agosta (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University) – Impairment of Social Cognition in Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Mara Rocca (Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital) ­– A View into Cognition and beyond in Multiple Sclerosis

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18:30-19:30 Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room A

Chair: Massimo Reichlin

– J. May, Moral Rationalism on the Brain

– F. Bina, Neuroethics and Reflective Equilibrium

– M. W. Carstensen, Folk-Intuitions, Free Will and Chance

– S. Bonicalzi, O. Deroy, Corrective Responsibility for Habitual Actions

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Room B

Chair: Andrea Lavazza

– S. Palumbo, V. Mariotti, Stefano Vellucci, K. Antonelli, N. Anderson, C. Harenski, K. A. Kiehl, S. Pellegrini, The Sins of the Fathers Do not Fall on the Children: Selected Dopamine and Serotonin Alleles Increase the Risk for Psychopathy as a Consequence of Paternal Maltreatment

– L. Casartelli, A. Vitale, A. Federici, E. Pini, M. Molteni, L. Ronconi, To See, or not to See in the Same Way, This Is the Question: (In)flexibility of Visual Scene Parsing in Autism

– A. Erler, Authenticity in the Ethical Debate on Memory Modification: Too Early to Forget About It

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Room C

Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti

– M. Farina, Not So Humane. Why the Quarantine Model of Incapacitation Fails to Be the Best Criminal Policy

– J. H. Yang, S. H. Kim, The Patent Trends of Brainwave Technology in the Republic of Korea and its Ethical and Social Implications

– F. Battaglia, Do Ethical Issues regarding Brain Organoïds Rely on the Metaphysics of the Mind-Brain Identity Theory?

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20:00-21:00 INS Panel– Ethical and Societal Implications of Telepsychiatry and the new era of Digital Mental Health

• Chair: Anthony Weiss (Center for Bioethics – Harvard Medical School)
• Nicole Martinez (Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics)
• Cynthia J. Sieck (The Ohio State University College of Medicine)
• John Torous (Harvard Medical School)

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21 MAGGIO 2021

17:00-18:30 Invited talks

• Chair: Michele Di Francesco (IUSS, Pavia)
• Philipp Kellmeyer (University of Freiburg) – Cooperative Human-AI Systems in Neuroscience and Neuromedicine
• Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma) – Aest-Ethic World: Experience, Emotions and Performativity in the Digital Age

18:30-19:30 Assemblea SINe

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