About this course
As neuroscience expands our understanding of neural processes, core concepts in our self-perception such as free will, moral assessments, and personal values are challenged. This opens new fields for concerns and ethical considerations, e.g. using neural basis of decision-making as a marketing tool (neuromarketing), brain privacy, as well as chemical enhancement of neurobiological processes, are all subjects for ethical scrutiny.
Syllabus
Faculty
Elise Schiøler
FacultyCand. phil. (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen 2003). Supplementary studies in rationality in economics and theory of organization, Copenhagen Business School, 2004-2005, and journalism, Danish School of Media and Journalism, 2005-2006. Lecturer in medical ethics, theory of science, and philosophy of health technologies at University of Copenhagen’s Department of Public Health Science since 2007. Lecturer in theory of science, FARMA, University of Copenhagen, since 2012. With DIS since 2011.
Bettina Hornbøll Borch
FacultyPh.D. (Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, 2017). M.Sc. (Neurobiology, University of Copenhagen, 2006). B.A. (Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2004). Founder of CogniCation; cognitive communication. Has been conducting neuroscience research for over 10 years, investigating emotion processing in the brain using imaging. With DIS since 2012.