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[Final Report] UTCP Mid-Term Program in Brain Sciences and Ethics

20 May, 2010 Brain Sciences and Ethics

UTCP Mid-Term Program in Brain Sciences and Ethics completed all activities. This is the final report of our group. In 2010, a new Mid-Term Program in STS Studies will start.

[Overview]
The development of science and technology has a great influence on society and poses many problems that are related to values and ethics. In this program we shall examine philosophical and ethical problems of brain sciences and society from three perspectives.

First, the advancement of the brain sciences might produce such technology as mind-reading and medical enhancement of intelligence. This could present serious ethical problems. We shall study these problems.

Second, the advancement of the brain sciences might drastically change current views of human beings, for instance, the denial of free-will, the brain's control over actions, etc. Comparing the brain sciences with evolutionary biology, we shall investigate whether the former can change views of human beings, as did the latter. Furthermore, we shall scrutinize the philosophical and ethical implications of such a change.
Third, by revealing how brain mechanisms produce ethical actions, the brain sciences might uncover the realities of our ethical actions, undermine existing ethics, and promote the naturalization of ethics. We shall consider what such naturalization of ethics is like and what it brings to us.


[Reports]
UTCP Blog (Brain Sciences and Ethics)


[Summary]
1. Members
(1) 2007





NameAffiliationPositionSpecialization
Yukihiro NobuharaUTCPProject LeaderPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Neurophilosophy, Neuroethics
Toshihiro SuzukiUTCPPost-docPhilosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Phenomenology
Kei YoshidaUTCPPost-docPhilosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Junichi KushitaUTCPRAModern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Mineki OguchiUTCPRAPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Eisuke NakazawaUTCPRAPhilosophy of Science, Neurophilosophy of Memory
Koji TachibanaUTCPCollaboratorGreek Philosophy, Ethics
Ryo UeharaUTCPCollaboratorEpistemology, Neuroethics


(2) 2008





NameAffiliationPositionSpecialization
Yukihiro NobuharaUTCPProject LeaderPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Neurophilosophy, Neuroethics
Kei YoshidaUTCPPostdocPhilosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Neuroethics/Philosophy of Neuroeconomics
Mineki OguchiUTCPDC2Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Neuroethics
Eisuke NakazawaUTCPRAPhilosophy of Science, Neurophilosophy of Memory
Ryoji SatoUTCPRAPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Consciousness, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Maika NakaoUTCPRAHistory of Science, Science Studies
John O'DeaUTCPCollaboratorAnalytic philosophy of mind, perception, consciousness
Ryo UeharaUTCPCollaboratorTheory of Knowledge, Ontoloty, Neuroethics
Koji TachibanaUTCPCollaboratorGreek Philosophy, Engineering Ethics, Neuroethics
Haruka TsutsuiUTCPCollaboratorPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology
Yu NishitsutsumiUTCPCollaboratorPhilosophy of Mind, Neuroethics


(3) 2009





NameAffiliationPositionSpecialization
Yukihiro NobuharaUTCPProject LeaderPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Neurophilosophy, Neuroethics
Eisuke NakazawaUTCPPostdocPhilosophy of Science, Neurophilosophy of Memory
Kei YoshidaUTCPPostdocPhilosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (incl. Neuroeconomics), Neuroethics
Mineki OguchiUTCPDC2Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Neuroethics
Maika NakaoUTCPRAHistory of Science, Science Studies
Sutetsu BokuUTCPRAPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Time
John O'DeaUTCPCollaboratorAnalytic philosophy of mind, perception, consciousness
Ryo UeharaUTCPCollaboratorTheory of Knowledge, Ontoloty, Neuroethics
Koji TachibanaUTCPCollaboratorGreek Philosophy, Engineering Ethics, Neuroethics
Haruka TsutsuiUTCPCollaboratorPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology
Yu NishitsutsumiUTCPCollaboratorPhilosophy of Mind, Neuroethics
Ryoji SatoUTCPCollaboratorPhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Consciousness, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Iva GeorgievaUTCPCollaboratorPhilosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Space and Identity
Sho SekiyaUTCPCollaboratorScience and Technology Studies, Risk Studies
Tomohisa SumidaUTCPCollaboratorSocial History of Environment, Life, and Science

2. Seminars
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3. Seminar Series
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4. KOMABA Brain Café
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5. Presentations
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6. Publications
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