NEUROETHICS: NEW WAYS OF INVESTIGATING THE BRAIN

Meetings on Neuroscience and Society, XII Edition

7th Conference of the Italian Society for Neuroethics (SINe), 12th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics (ON LINE CONFERENCE)

May 13^th – 14^th – 20^th – 21^st, 2021 – CEST 

Online

To download the program, see here.

To watch the recorded sessions, see here.

May 13^th 

4:45 pm Opening Remarks and Announcement of the SINe Prize Winners

5:00 – 6:30 pm 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 – awarded the SINe Medal

Rebecca Roache (University of London) – On Passive Aggresion

6:30 – 7:30pm Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room A	Room B	Room C
Chair: Michela Balconi	Chair: Matteo Cerri	Chair: Andrea Lavazza
G. Melis, G. Sartori, C. Scarpazza. Eyewitnesses Evaluation: Should the Legal Criteria Be Adjusted basing on Scientific Results?	E. Lasater-Guttmann. The Supposed Irreversibility of Brain Death	G. Cevolani, D. Coraci. Reverse Inference and Bayesian Confirmation in Cognitive Neuroscience
A. Miolla, M. Cardaioli, C. Scarpazza, M. Monaro, N. Navarin, G. Sartori. Words Lie, Your Face Doesn’t	N. Gligorov. Is Death Irreversible?	F. Calzavarini, G. Cevolani, M. Viola. Abductive Reasoning in Cognitive Neuroscience: Weak and Strong Reverse Inference
C. Scarpazza, L. Masiero, E. Bortolato, C. Cavaliere, J. Pezzaioli, L. Finos, G. Sartori. Different Neural Substrate in Developmental and Acquired Pedophilia: Preliminary Results	F. Zilio. Unlocking the Brain. Neuroimaging, Disorders of Consciousness, and the Role of Neuroethics	R. Fumagalli. A Reformed Division of Labour for the Science of Well-Being

7:45 – 8:45 pm International Neuroethics Society Lecture

Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti (University of Milan)

Nita Farahany (Duke University, INS President) – Your Brain At Work

May 14^th

5:00 – 6:30 pm Invited talks

Chair: Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University – Tufts University)

Derk Pereboom (Cornell University) – Wrongdoing, Freedom, and the Moral Emotions – awarded the SINe Medal

Thomas Søbirk Petersen (Roskilde University) – Neuro-doping and Fairness

Jesper Ryberg (Roskilde University) – Neurointervention, Crime Prevention and the Ideal/non-ideal Distinction

6:30 – 7:30 pm Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room A	Room B	Room C
Chair: Giulia Piredda	Chair: Raffaella I. Rumiati	Chair: Sarah Songhorian
M. Facchin. Markov Blankets Do not Rule out the Extended Mind Hypothesis	L. Angioletti, F. Cassioli, M. Balconi. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) between Good and Evil: Possible Neuroethical Implications for Individuals and Society	S. Zipoli Caiani, G. Ferretti. On Pragmatic Modes of Presentation
G. Zanotti. Scientistic Stances and Physicalism in the Philosophy of Mind	G. Fronda, M. Balconi. How Ethics and Moral Cognition Influence Decision-Making in Professional Fields: The Contribution of Neuroscience	G. Ferretti. Why there is no such thing as Affordance Perception
M. Degano. Dreyfus meets 4E Cognition	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	M. Carrick. Thresholds, Inexpressibility, and Personhood

May 20^th  

5:00 – 6:30 pm 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

6:30 – 7:30 pm Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room A	Room B	Room C
Chair: Massimo Reichlin	Chair: Andrea Lavazza	Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti
J. May. Moral Rationalism on the Brain	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	M. Farina. Not So Humane. Why the Quarantine Model of Incapacitation Fails to Be the Best Criminal Policy
F. Bina. Neuroethics and Reflective Equilibrium	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	J. H. Yang, S. H. Kim. The Patent Trends of Brainwave Technology in the Republic of Korea and its Ethical and Social Implications
M. W. Carstensen. Folk-Intuitions, Free Will and Chance	A. Erler. Authenticity in the Ethical Debate on Memory Modification: Too Early to Forget About It	F. Battaglia. Do Ethical Issues regarding Brain Organoïds Rely on the Metaphysics of the Mind-Brain Identity Theory?
S. Bonicalzi, O. Deroy. Corrective Responsibility for Habitual Actions

8:00 – 9:00 pm 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)

Panelists:

Nicole Martinez(Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics)

Cynthia J. Sieck (The Ohio State University College of Medicine)

John Torous(Harvard Medical School)

May 21^st

5:00 – 6:30 pm 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 – awarded the SINe Medal

6:30 – 8:00 pm Assemblea SINe

Attendance is free and open to all those interested. If you were unable to register, please send an email to songhorian.sarah@unisr.it. 

Although attendance is free, please consider donating to SINe to support its activities (for information about how to donate, please visit: https://societadineuroetica.wordpress.com/come-aderire/).

Scientific and Organizing Committee

Michele Di Francesco, IUSS, Pavia (SINe President)

Nita A. Farahany, Duke University (INS President)

Michela Balconi, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

Katherine Bassil, Maastricht University


Mario De Caro, Roma Tre University – Tufts University

Andrea Lavazza, Centro Universitario Internazionale, Arezzo 

Massimo Reichlin, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University


Sarah Songhorian, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University