Consilience: The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences

Rob Dolan (UCL), Peter Hacker (Oxford University), Nikolas Rose (King's College London)

Consilience: The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences
 
In this series, a panel debates a topic with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary communication and mutual understanding. Emphasis will be placed on trying to identify common questions and on seeking to integrate knowledge from different areas of expertise.


What can the brain tell us about the mind?
 
Monday 20 January, 6.30 – 8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE  
 
Ray Dolan, Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London
Peter Hacker, Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford  
Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology, King’s College London 
 
Chair: Tali Sharot, Faculty Member and Director of the Affective Brain Lab, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences, UCL and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow
 
In April President Obama unveiled the ‘BRAIN’ Initiative—‘a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind’. What, if anything, can neuroscience teach us about the mind? Does understanding the biology of the brain help illuminate human emotions, social relationships, decision making, personality? This session will bring together neuroscientists, sociologists and philosophers to debate this question. 

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEbrain  
 

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