Academic Year 2024-2025
Modality
Presential - Online
Duration
3 ECTS
Language
Italian
Class beginning dates
20/09/2024
August 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the introduction in scientific circles of the neologism “neuroethics” by Harvard neuropsychiatrist Anneliese Alma Pontius (1921-2018).
Since 2009, thanks to the activity of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Neurobioethics (GdN) of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (APRA) in Rome, the term has acquired a personalistic declension.
After 15 years of research experience – and after having excavated since 2017 the contexts of transhumanism, the so-called “head transplant” in humans, robotics (robotethics), artificial intelligence (algorethics), neurotechnologies and current developments in virtual and augmented reality and Metaverse-, from September 2023 to June 2024, the GdN intends to offer a training course on neuroethics with the aim of critically “remapping” this interdisciplinary context of reflection on neuroscience and its own interpretations.
The training course also aims to increase participants’ awareness of the relevance of neuroethical reflection in the multiple scenarios of contemporaneity in which we live, move, and exist.
This VII Advanced Course “Neurobioethics: remapping the territory” will offer ten seminars, round tables, and a congress in March 2024 during the World Brain Awareness Week promoted by the DANA Foundation, through which the historical genesis of neuroethics and the different paradigmatic models found today will be traced.
Throughout the course, some specific fields of this reflection will be presented, from the context of consciousness to neuroaesthetics, from neurolaw to sexual difference, and up to trans and posthuman scenarios.
The course will be held in Italian and English and will be broadcast online. Participants will be able to follow it in synchronous and asynchronous formats.
Course structure
From September 29, 2023, to June 21, 2024
The course will consist of a two-hour monthly meeting (seminar or round table) from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
- 29/09: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 27/10: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 24/11: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 15/12: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 26/01: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 23/02: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 15/03: World Brain Week Congress
- 19/04: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 24/05: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 21/06: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The specific contents and speakers will be communicated month by month. They will progressively cover technological, neurological, neurosurgical, psychiatric, psychological, ethical, bioethical, legal, and theological aspects related to the concept of “Metaverse.”
Target Audience
The training course is aimed at individuals interested in the development and application of new technologies to human beings, particularly politicians, engineers, doctors, bioethicists, philosophers, theologians, teachers, and educators. Participants will receive a certificate upon completion of the advanced course, with 3 ECTS credits awarded upon evaluation of a synthesis paper.