Neuroethics

The aim of this course is to provide an introduction regarding the ethical questions that attend the development and effects of novel neurotechnologies, as well as other ethical and philosophical issues that arise from our growing understanding of how brains give rise to the people that we are and the social structures that we inhabit and create. In addition to a general introduction to the discipline of neuroethics and its recent historical development, the course will also deal with specific topics of neroethical debate, amongst with enhancement, cognitive liberty, personal responsibility.

Attending students will be able to acquire both a theoretical knowledge in the field of neuroethics and also some more empirical knowledge in the most important experiments conducted within this field.