NEUROETHICS
Stampa
Anno immatricolazione
2020/2021
Anno offerta
2021/2022
Normativa
DM270
SSD
M-PSI/02 (PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA)
Dipartimento
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DEL SISTEMA NERVOSO E DEL COMPORTAMENTO
Corso di studio
PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Anno di corso
Periodo didattico
Primo Semestre (04/10/2021 - 21/12/2021)
Crediti
6
Ore
36 ore di attività frontale
Lingua insegnamento
INGLESE
Tipo esame
SCRITTO E ORALE CONGIUNTI
Docente
SANTOSUOSSO AMEDEO (titolare) - 3 CFU
LAVAZZA ANDREA - 3 CFU
Prerequisiti
Basic knowledge of neuroanatomy and cognitive neuroscience is assumed. Some basic concepts of moral and legal theories are helpful but not strictly required.
Obiettivi formativi
The course aims at offering knowledge in the new and expanding field of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary endeavor that arises from the development of cognitive science and its theoretical and practical implications at an ethical, legal, societal and political level. The course is aimed at all the students interested in acquiring updated skills in a very relevant feature of research and psychological practice, namely the ethical side of every kind of interventions on human mind/brain.
After the course, participants will be expected to be able to:
* recognize the ethical issues at stake in singles cases and new strands of research.
* understand and apply the relevant neuroethical tools related to the case in question.
* develop proposals for original view concerning new ethically controversial issues.
Programma e contenuti
Neuroethics, the law, and criminal responsibility
Strategies of regulation (ethics, soft law, law by design)
Rationality, consciousness and machines
Machine ethics
Artificial intelligence and general- purpose AI
Cognitive biases, intelligence and thinking rationally
Reading and controlling minds
Bci, neural prostheses, brain privacy, and cognitive liberty
Free will and neuroscience
Cognitive (and moral) enhancement
Memory modulation
Disturbances of consciousness
Human cerebral organoids
Microbiome and behaviour
Metodi didattici
The course is based on lectures, video material, group discussion and individual discussion of scientific articles and single case studies.
Testi di riferimento
The materials will be provided during the course. Students are advised to read: N. Levy, Neuroethics, Cambridge University Press.
Modalità verifica apprendimento
Written and / or oral examinations with the possibility for the student to prepare reports on specific topics and discuss them.
Altre informazioni
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile