MAPPING NEW CHALLENGES IN THE NEUROETHICAL LANDSCAPE

Meetings on Neuroscience and Society, XIV Edition

9th Conference of the Italian Society for Neuroethics (SINe) and 14th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics

May 10th – 12th, 2023

Pisa-Lucca

Wednesday – May 10^th

PISA Polo Congressuale Le Benedettine

13:30 Registration

14:00 Opening Remarks 

14:30 – 16:30 Plenary session 

Room A

Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti

Jonathan Pugh (University of Oxford) – The Ethics of Neuro-Doping (co-authored with Christopher Pugh)

Joseph J. Fins (Weill Cornell Medical College, INS President) – Cognitive Restoration, Neuroethics and Disability Rights: Narratives from the Central Thalamic Stimulation for TBI Study 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 SINe Medal

Chair: Adriano Fabris

Laudator: Andrea Lavazza

Patricia Churchland (University of California – San Diego) – SINe medal for Philosophy

The Brain Basis for Morality

Thursday – May 11^th

Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca

(the transfer to Lucca from Pisa will be organized by the convenors – the meeting point will be @ Hotel Royal Victoria (Lungarno Antonio Pacinotti, 12, 56100 Pisa) at 7:45 a.m.)

9:00– 11:00 Plenary session

Cappella Guinigi (San Francesco Complex)

Chair: Emiliano Ricciardi

Serena Bovetti (University of Turin) – Whole-brain representation of imprinted scents

Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara) – Brain representations from a neurophysiological perspective

11:00 -11:30 Coffee Break – poster session (@ Sala Canova – San Francesco Complex)

11:30 –13:00Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room 1 – Cappella Guinigi (San Francesco Complex)

Chair: Mirko D. Garasic

Luca Malatesti, Iris Vidmar Jovanović, The narrative approach to the moral landscape of individuals with antisocial personalities: some conceptual issues

Emiliano Loria, Elisabetta Lalumera, Moralising psychiatric care. The case of psilocybin for the treatment of drug-resistant depression and the psychedelic paradox

Federico Zilio, Does consciousness fluctuate in complete locked-in syndrome? A neuroethical analysis through an empirical and conceptual approach

Room 2 – Conference Room (San Ponziano Complex)

Chair: Sofia Bonicalzi

Dario Cecchini, Moral intuitions and the reliability challenge

Federico Bina, Computational Neuroethics

Alejandro Rosas, Moral science: Cognitive architecture and moral disagreement

Room 3 – Sala Convegni (San Micheletto Complex)

Chair: Gustavo Cevolani

Giulia Ghidini, Giuseppe Sartori, Cristina Scarpazza, I Bias Cognitivi e la loro influenza sull’esito processuale

Fiorella Battaglia, Giuseppe Di Vetta, The privacy of the mental and the latest surveillance

Corrado Claverini, Chiara Montalti, Children and the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch (@ Sala Canova – San Francesco Complex)

14:30 – 16:30 Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room 1 – Cappella Guinigi (San Francesco Complex)

Chair: Camilla Colombo

Mirko Daniel Garasic, Avatars, Extended Reality and Virtual Rights

Ozan Erözden, Dominium in the Age of Neurotechnologies: Who Is the Subject of Neurorights?

Vera Tesink, The right to mental integrity and the extended mind

Alberto Carrio, Safeguarding athlete’s neuro-rights in sport. The failure of AI’s regulation in sport

Room 2 – Conference Room (San Ponziano Complex)

Chair: Luca Cecchetti 

Guido Cassinadri, Marco Fasoli, The assessment of capacities of cognitive tool-users: From extended to integrated cognitive systems

Tom Buller, Cognitive Agency and Neurotechnology

Giulia Leonetti, Marco Facchin, Extended Animal Cognition

Giacomo Zanotti, The meta-problem of artificial consciousness and moral status

Room 3 – Sala Convegni (San Micheletto Complex)

Chair: Sara Palumbo, Giulio Bernardi

Luca Grion, Neuro-doping: equità, autonomia e autenticità alla prova tecniche di stimolazione transcranica

Ivan Mladenovic, How Neuroscience Can Help Us for Understanding and Reducing Political Polarization

Noa Cohen, A call for the demystification of neuroscience as a neuroethical imperative

Katharina Trettenbach, Of Potential and Potential Pitfalls: Polygenic Scores, Psychiatry, and the Clinical Encounter

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break – poster session (@ Sala Canova – San Francesco Complex)

17:00 – 18:00 Plenary session 

Cappella Guinigi (San Francesco Complex)

Chair: Marcello Ienca

Silvestro Micera (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa) – Implantable and wearable systems to restore and augment sensory-motor functions: opportunities and (ethical) challenges

18:00 SINe Meeting (@ Cappella Guinigi – San Francesco Complex)

20:30 Social Dinner (@ Ristorante Mecenate, Via del Fosso 94, Lucca)

Friday – May 12^th

PISA Polo Congressuale Le Benedettine

9:00– 10:00 Plenary session 

Room A

Chair: Sofia Bonicalzi

Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) – No luck for moral luck

10:00 – 11:00Parallel session – Contributed papers 

Room 1 – Room A

Chair: Andrea Lavazza 

Davide Crivelli, Michela Balconi, Effects of a wearable-enhanced neuroempowerment protocol on higher cognitive functions in managers

Laura Angioletti, Carlotta Acconito, Katia Rovelli, Davide Crivelli, Michela Balconi, Neuroempowerment for age management in high-level professional contexts: a comparison of junior and senior managers

Room 2 – Room B

Chair: Marcello Ienca 

Marianna Capasso, Alberto Pirni, Paolo Dario, Robot Nudging. An Ethical Exploration of an Emerging Practice in Human-Robot Interaction

Guido Cassinadri, Alberto Pirni, From an extended to a relational interpretation of the right to mental integrity

Room 3 – Room E

Chair: Silvia Pellegrini

Andrew Barnhart, Kris Dierickx, A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation

Alice Andrea Chinaia, Brain organoids as models: neuroethics and epistemology

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break 

11:30 – 13:00 SINe Medal

Room A

Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti

Laudator: Pietro Pietrini

Helen Mayberg (Mount Sinai Health System) – SINe medal for Neuroscience

What is well? Reconciling First- and Third-Person Perspectives on Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation

13:00 Closing remarks

14:30–17:30 Satellite (hybrid) Event – Neurotechnologies and Neurorights: The international debate

Room A – for attending online see here.

First session: Ethical issues

Marcello Ienca (chairperson)

Joe Fins (Cornell University)

Philipp Kellmeyer (Freiburg University)

Gerben Meynen (Vrije Universiteit)

Sarah Songhorian (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)

Second session: Legal issues 

Andrea Lavazza (chairperson)

Susie Alegre (International Human Rights Lawyer, London)

Sjors Ligthart (Tilburg University)

Federico Gustavo Pizzetti (University of Milan)

Marta Maria Sosa Navarro (Bicocca University)

Conference Fees

80 euros

(Students, Ph.D. candidates, and residents will be granted free access)

Registration form: https://forms.gle/sHT6uZTCm7Cku5Gv9

Scientific and Organizing Committee

Federico Gustavo Pizzetti (University of Milan, SINe President)

Joseph J. Fins (Weill Cornell Medical College, INS President)

Michela Balconi (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)

Sofia Bonicalzi (Roma Tre University) 

Matteo Cerri (University of Bologna)

Gustavo Cevolani (Scuola IMT Lucca)

Camilla Colombo (Scuola IMT Lucca) 

Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University – Tufts University)

Michele Di Francesco (IUSS, Pavia)

Marcello Ienca (EPFL)

Andrea Lavazza (Centro Universitario Internazionale, Arezzo)

Sara Palumbo (University of Pisa)

Silvia Pellegrini (University of Pisa)

Pietro Pietrini (Scuola IMT Lucca) 

Massimo Reichlin (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)

Sarah Songhorian (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)

Organizing Secretary

Sarah Songhoriane-mail: convegno@societadineuroetica.it