Critical Neuroscience: Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Policies (Lecture Series Ghent, Belgium, 21 Feb

Research Summary: Critical Neuroscience Lecture Series

Topic: Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Policies in Neuroscience

Event Format: Six-lecture academic series, February 21 – May 23, 2013

Host Institution: Centre for Critical Philosophy, University of Ghent, Belgium (collaborative with KU Leuven, UA, ULB)

Key Themes: Psychiatry and neurosciences, neuroscience as ideology critique, neural plasticity and mental causality, embodied simulation, mirror neurons, and intersubjectivity

Featured Speakers: Howard Caygill (Kingston University), Marc De Kesel (KU Leuven), Ariane Bazan (UL Bruxelles), Jan Slaby (Free University Berlin), Aikaterini Fotopoulou (King's College London), Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma)

Schedule Format: Evening lectures 19:30–21:30 with respondent commentaries

Evidence Grade: Philosophical and critical inquiry into neuroscientific methodology and ethical implications—not empirical product evidence

Scope: Interdisciplinary examination of neuroscience's philosophical foundations, ideological dimensions, and implications for human subjectivity and ethics

Organised by the Centre for Critical Philosophy of the University of Ghent together with the Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law & Doctoral School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Ghent University, and in close cooperation with the University of Antwerp (UA), the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Thursday, 21 February 2013. 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof Howard Caygill (Kingston University, London): Psychiatry and the Neurosciences; Response by Dr Farah Focquaert (UGent) Lecture theatre Auditorium B, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, Gent – Belgium.

Thursday, 7 March 2013. 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Dr. Marc De Kesel (Artevelde Gent/KU Leuven/Radboud Nijmegen): Neuroscience as Ideology Critique; Response by Dr Jan De Vos (UGent)

Thursday, 21 March 2013. 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof Ariane Bazan (UL Bruxelles): The case of jouissance contra neural plasticity. Pleading mental causality in favor of an ethics of subjective liability; Response by Prof Andreas De Block (KU Leuven)

Thursday, 18 April 2013. 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof Jan Slaby (Free University Berlin): The Philosophy of ‘Critical Neuroscience’; Response by Prof Peter Reynaert (UA)

Thursday, 2 May 2013. 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof Aikaterini Fotopoulou (King’s College London): Between the Two Cultures: Neuroscientific Research on the Bodily Ego; Response by Prof Helena De Preester (UGent)

Thursday, 23 May 2013. 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma): From mirror neurons to Embodied Simulation. A second-person approach to intersubjectivity; Response by Prof Ariane Bazan (ULB)

For more information email Jan De Vos.