Mind Matters: Navigating Neuroethics in the 21st Century
Meetings on Neuroscience and Society, XV Edition
10th Conference of the Italian Society for Neuroethics (SINe) and 15th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics
June 5-7, 2024
Roma Tre University, Department of Education Science (Via del Castro Pretorio 20, Rome)
Wednesday – June 5
13:00 Registration
Aula Volpi
13:30 Opening Remarks
Federico Gustavo Pizzetti (University of Milan, SINe President)
Debra Mathews (Johns Hopkins University, INS President)
Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University – Tufts University)
14:00 – 15:00 Plenary session – Aula Volpi
Chair: Simone Pollo
Francesco Ferretti (Roma Tre University) – Why stories enchant the brain. The splendors and miseries of an extraordinary human ability
15:00 – 17:00 Parallel session – Contributed papers
Room 1 – Aula Volpi
Chair: Ines Adornetti
Jesper Ryberg – Criminal Justice and Artificial Intelligence: What is the input problem?
Francesco Stocchi – Neurotechnology, Neuropower, and Neurorights
Frederic Gilbert – Mind Reading Neurotechnology: A Critical Examination of Neurorights Claims
Alexander Sobieska and Marcello Ienca – Neurorights on Youtube: Investigating Ethical Considerations of Neurotechnology in Public Discourse
Room 2 – Aula P1
Chair: Mirko Daniel Garasic
Maurizio Balistreri – Ethics of the Hivemind Society
Nin Kirtkham and Chris Letheby – Psychedelics and environmental virtues
Stefano Pinzan – Is Kant Afraid of Emotions? An Empirically Informed Analysis
Elisabetta Sirgiovanni – Should Dr Robot possess moral empathy?
Room 3 – Aula C05
Chair: Michela Balconi
Katia Rovelli, Laura Angioletti and Michela Balconi – Navigating the Ethical Landscape: unveiling the transformative impact of Digital Technologies on Occupational Stress Assessment
Carlotta Acconito, Roberta A. Allegretta, Davide Crivelli and Michela Balconi – How one’s emotional and cognitive disposition influence moral decision making: the neuroscientific perspective
Davide Crivelli, Andrea Bosco, Ambra Bisio, Gabriella Gilli, Antonella Lopez, Giuseppina Spano and Michela Balconi – Introducing the triadic PNP model of individual wellbeing: psychological balance, neurocognitive efficiency, and physical fitness as core constituents and targets for remote empowerment interventions
Michela Balconi, Carlotta Acconito, Laura Angioletti, Enrico Bresciani, Federico Bionda and Ruggero Eugeni – Decision-making processes and ethical choices under the neurofilmological lenses
17:00 – 17:15 Coffee Break
17:15 – 18:45 SINe Medal and Biogem Lecture – Aula Volpi
Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti
Laudator: Mario De Caro
Michael Tomasello (Duke University) – Origins of Human Morality
Thursday – June 6
10:00 – 11:00 Plenary session – Aula Volpi
Chair: Pietro Pietrini
Alice Mado Proverbio (University of Milano-Bicocca) – The Neuroaesthetics of Music: A Neurobiological Perspective
11:00 -11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 –13:15 Parallel session – Contributed papers
Room 1 – Aula Volpi
Chair: Andrea Lavazza
Alberto Zani, Mauro Marzorati and Alice Mado Proverbio – Decoding the Impact of Hypoxia on Decision Making Via Behavioral Responses, ERPs, and Intracranial Dipoles
Corrado Claverini – The Artificial Sentience Debate: ELIZA Effect and the AI Manipulation Problem
Thomas Tannou – Taking risks without knowing it – Ethical and legal impact of self-perception disorders in Alzheimer’s disease
Noa Cohen – An infodemiology of neurotechnology? How (mis)information affects end-user risk
Room 2 – Aula P1
Chair: Sofia Bonicalzi
Dario Cecchini – Bivalent triadic morality: Integrating the ADC model with the theory of dyadic morality
Fiorella Battaglia, Giuseppe Di Vetta and Gaia Fiorinelli – Rethinking mental privacy: a philosophical and legal account
Gianluigi Riva – Scripta non manent. Erasing the past, rewriting the future: ethical and legal implications of selective memory deletion
Room 3 – Aula C05
Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti
Marco Viola – (Mis)decoding affect from faces and brains. Some cautionary notes
Marco Fasoli and Guido Cassinadri – The technological cognitive diminishment hypothesis (TCDH)
Orestis Palermos – Extended Mental Integrity
Guido Cassinadri and Marcello Ienca – Non-voluntary BCI Explantation: Assessing Possible Neurorights Violations in Light of Embedded and Extended Cognition
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:15 Plenary session – Aula Volpi
Chair: Simone Gozzano
Martin Monti (University of California Los Angeles) – Translating the science of disorders of consciousness into ethical clinical practice (online)
15:15 – 16:15 Parallel session – Contributed papers
Room 1 – Aula Volpi
Chair: Federico Gustavo Pizzetti
Laura Angioletti and Michela Balconi – Treating behavioral addictions with neurotechnological interventions? A critical discussion of potential risks and benefits
Ambra D’Imperio, Jantzi Camille, Maurice W.D Stauffacher, Raffaele Larussa, Georg Starke and Marcello Ienca – Death beyond the Alps: a comparative qualitative analysis of end of life care and assisted suicide in two neighboring countries, Italy and Switzerland
Room 2 – Aula P1
Chair: Andrea Lavazza
Thomas Søbirk Petersen – On the benefits and challenges of using ethical guidelines to regulate the use of AI in sport
Mirko Daniel Garasic – Extending minds in sports: if I am my brainchip, where does doping begin?
Room 3 – Aula C05
Chair: Pietro Pietrini
Sara Palumbo, Pietro Muratori, Veronica Mariotti, Lucia Billeci, Valentina Levantini, Emanuela Inguaggiato, Gabriele Masi, Annarita Milone and Silvia Pellegrini – Novel evidence about the role of the MAOA-Low-activity alleles in increasing the individual susceptibility to the environment
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Plenary session – Aula Volpi
Chair: Massimo Reichlin
Petter Johansson (Lund University) – Choice blindness, self-knowledge and the future of moral decision making
17:30 SINe Meeting
20:00 Social Dinner
Friday – June 7
9:30 – 10:30 Plenary session – Aula Volpi
Chair: Matteo Cerri
Michele Farisco (Biogem, Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Centre – Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University) – Neuroethics and cultural diversity
10:30 –10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 Plenary session – Aula Volpi
Chair: Andrea Lavazza
Silvia Pellegrini (University of Pisa) – From Genes to Mind and Back
11:45 – 13:15 SINe Medal – Aula Volpi
Chair: Massimo Dell’Utri
Laudator: Sofia Bonicalzi
Neil Levy (Macquarie University – University of Oxford) – The Rationality of Political Beliefs
13:15 Closing remarks
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Satellite event – Workshop with Neil Levy on Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People (OUP, 2021)
Aula Volpi
15.00-18.00
Discussants: Guido Baggio, Sofia Bonicalzi, Alessandra Chiera, Michel Croce, Mario De Caro, Silvia De Toffoli, Mauro Dorato, Marco Fasoli, Luca Fonnesu, Mirko Daniel Garasic, Lorenzo Greco, Anna Ichino, Emiliano Loria, Matteo Morganti, Teodosio Orlando, Chiara Palazzolo, Tommaso Piazza, Simone Pollo, Gino Roncaglia, Eleonora Severini, Fabio Sterpetti, Marco Viola
Conference Fees
Early registration (before April 30th): 80 euros
Late registration (after April 30th): 100 euros
Ph.D. candidates’ early registration (before April 30th): 15 euros
Ph.D. candidates’ late registration (after April 30th): 25 euros
Students will be granted free access
Registration form: https://forms.gle/RJ2yiyxHzwuvzTts8
Scientific and Organizing Committee
Federico Gustavo Pizzetti (University of Milan, SINe President)
Michela Balconi (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)
Sofia Bonicalzi (Roma Tre University)
Matteo Cerri (University of Bologna)
Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University – Tufts University)
Michele Di Francesco (IUSS, Pavia)
Mirko Daniel Garasic (Roma Tre University)
Marcello Ienca (Technical University of Munich)
Andrea Lavazza (Centro Universitario Internazionale, Arezzo)
Silvia Pellegrini (University of Pisa)
Massimo Reichlin (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)
Sarah Songhorian (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University)
Organizing Secretary
Sarah Songhorian (e-mail: convegno@societadineuroetica.it)