Introduction
The Interdisciplinary Research Group in Neurobioethics (IDG) of the Faculty of Philosophy, after a 15-year research experience also in the contexts of transhumanism, from September 2024 to June 2025 offers training related to emerging issues in neuroethics. From the critical scenarios of motor, cognitive, affective, emotional and social enhancement to the scenarios that challenge the neurobioethicist today, such as brain organoids, from so-called “organoid intelligence” to human-machine hybridization for non-therapeutic purposes.
The Course is in collaboration with the Science and Faith Institute and the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights at the University.
Objectives and Target
The rapid developments and applications to human beings of neuroscientific and neurotechnological discoveries challenge the man and woman of today who are called to know in order to make informed decisions about the direction of progress. In fact, a specific slant of the course will consist of an in-depth study of the anthropological, ethical, legal, health and social consequences and repercussions of neuroscience and its interpretations for the life of the human being having as a reference horizon an Aristotelian-Thomistic realist view on the human person and the principles enshrined in the 2005 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. This eighth Postgraduate Course in Neurobioethics will gather part of the interdisciplinary reflection of the research group.
The course is designed for physicians, bioethicists, philosophers, theologians, lawyers and jurists, economic experts and trainers who wish to explore the new scenarios of neurobioethics.
Info and Modalities
- Credits 3 ECTS
- Classes start 20/09/2024
- Dates Enrollment from 05/06/2024 to 31/01/2025
- Enrollment Cost: €400
- Dicount fee by 30/09/2024
- Language: Italian. Possibility of simultaneous translation into Spanish and English if the number of registered applicants for these two languages is at least 5 students per language.
- Mode: presential and online synchronous and asynchronous.
NOTE: Until January 15, it is possible to register by making up sessions in asynchronous mode.