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The conference theme is “Fostering Innovation in Canadian Bioethics”. The program will tackle numerous subjects including the development of new theoretical, practical and pedagogical approaches to bioethics as well as their applications in the fields of health and wellness, while bearing in mind the concerns of the general public. It will gather researchers, students and members of ethics committees, but also ground-level healthcare workers who care about ethical issues related to their practices. This event has its eye focussed directly on the future with a view to the germination of new initiatives.

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31/05/2012

Lugar

Delta Centre-Ville Hotel 777 University, Montréal, QC H3C 3Z7 (Canadá)

Organiza

Canadian Bioethics Society

Más info

http://www.cbs-scb2012.com

Integrating Kantian ethics affects economics in three important ways. This integration allows for a more complete understanding of human choice, incorporating not just preferences and constraints, but also principles and strength of will or character. It demonstrates the broader impact of welfare economics, which generates policies that affect not only persons’ well-being, but also their dignity and autonomy. Finally, it reconciles the traditional, individualist stance in economic models of choice with the social responsibility emphasized by many systems of philosophical ethics and heterodox schools of economics.

(*)Mark D. White is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He has edited several books, the most recent of which are Accepting the Invisible Hand and The Thief of Time.

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Are you interested in the ethical and social implications of neuroscience?
The Emory Neuroethics Program invites you to apply for a Neuroethics Internship. We are looking for up to two self-motivated, creative, and organized individuals who are interested in topics that fall at the intersection of neuroscience, society, and ethics.

The Neuroethics Program is a community of scholars at the Emory University Center for Ethics who explore the ethical and social implications of neuroscience and neurotechnology. You can be part of that exciting team.

The Center for Ethics at Emory is an interdisciplinary hub that collaborates with every school at Emory University as well as local universities and the private and public community. The Center for Ethics houses The American Journal for Bioethics Neuroscience, the premier journal in Neuroethics. The director of the Center for Ethics, Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, is one of the founders of the field of Neuroethics as well as the International Neuroethics Society, where he serves on the Executive Board

Fecha límite

10/02/2012

Más info

http://ethics.emory.edu
Neuroethics interns

• Universidad de las Islas Baleares/Universitat de les Illes Balears
• Grupo de investigación Evolución y Cognición Humana (EVOCOG)

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El grupo Evolución y Cognición Humana se creó en el año 2000. Fue un primer paso para la institucionalización, en la Universitat de les Illes Balears, de las investigaciones sobre las vertientes filosóficas, antropológicas, psicológicas, psicopatológicas, paleontológicas y éticas de la naturaleza humana. Los estudios se han centrado fundamentalmente en los rasgos diferenciales del ser humano respecto a otras especies, y de forma primordial en la percepción de la estética, en el comportamiento moral y en el lenguaje.

A partir del año 2002, el equipo obtuvo la consideración de “grupo de investigación competitivo” por parte del Govern Balear. En el año 2004, el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia concedió la mención de calidad para el programa de doctorado “Los primates y el origen del hombre” promovido desde el grupo. El equipo de Evolución y Cognición Humana ha dispuesto de un amplio número de proyectos financiados por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia y el Govern Balear. Entre éstos, se financiaron dos expediciones al África Oriental (Tanzania y Kenia) destinadas a estudiar los orígenes de la cultura.

Los últimos proyectos han hecho uso de la técnica de la neuroimagen (Magnetoencefalografía y Resonancia Magnética Funcional) para localizar la actividad cerebral relacionada con la percepción estética. En el último proyecto de I+D+I concedido hasta ahora, el grupo ha establecido la colaboración con una empresa sanitaria, la Clínica Rotger, y en consecuencia cofinanciación pública y privada para el estudio de los procesos cerebrales en pacientes esquizofrénicos.

Investigaciones activas

• La naturaleza moral y estética humana. Caracterización sistemática de los rasgos derivados humanos de moral y estética.

•Cognición y representación en los programas no simbólicos en ciencia cognitiva. Aproximaciones dinámicas a la percepción y el movimiento en el espacio, al concepto de información y a la inducción de estructuras gramaticales (CREASEC 2).

• Estudi interdisciplinar sobre neurones mirall.

• La influencia del género y de la educación artística en el juicio estético: Respuestas comportamentales y cerebrales.

Fuente: Universidad de las Islas Baleares/Universitat de les Illes Balears (España)
http://www.uib.es/
Grupo de Investigación Evolución y Cognición Humana (EVOCOG)
http://www.evocog.es/

Martin Skov*-Oshin Vartanian** [2009]
Baywood Publishing, USA
ISBN: 978-0-89503-336-9
Page: 312
http://www.baywood.com

The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner’s seminal book Vorschule der Aesthetik in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this rich tradition, editors Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian view neuroaesthetics-the emerging field of inquiry concerned with uncovering the ways in which aesthetic behavior is caused by brain processes-as a natural extension of Fechner’s “empirical spirit” to understand the link between the objective and subjective worlds inherent in aesthetic experience. The editors had two specific aims for this book. The first was to highlight the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics.

Currently, this topic is being investigated from experimental, evolutionary, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging perspectives to tackle problems in the visual arts, literature, music, and film. Its quintessentially interdisciplinary nature has functioned as a breeding ground for generating and testing hypotheses in multiple domains. The second goal was more integrative and involved distilling some of the key features common to these diverse strands of work. The book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features. Neuroaesthetics will provide an empirical and theoretical framework to motivate further work in this area. Ultimately, the hope is that puzzles in aesthetics can be solved through insights from biology, but that the contribution can be truly bidirectional.

(*)Martin Skov was trained in linguistics and literary theory before pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience, using functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of aesthetic preference formation. He is currently a research fellow at The Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance at the Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre. He is a coeditor of several books, in Danish and English, and, together with a colleague, is writing a book on the relation between preference formation and decision-making.
(**)Oshin Vartanian received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Maine, with Dr. Colin Martindale as his supervisor. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience under the supervision of Dr. Vinod Goel at York University, in Toronto, and a visiting fellowship under the supervision of Dr. David R. Mandel at DRDC Toronto, where he is currently a Defence Scientist. He studies the neural underpinnings of higher cognitive function, including creativity, reasoning, and decision making, as well as the neural bases of preference formation and aesthetics.