AJOB Neuroscience

This year, The American Journal of Bioethics will be expanding its publications rate from 6 to 12 annual issues. As part of this increased frequency three issues per year will be dedicated to neuroethics. These issues will be called AJOB Neuroscience, and are edited by the tireless Judy Illes. The inaugural issue has just been [...]

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Conference: Empirical moral psychology

I’ve just been alerted to the fact that the University of Oslo in Norway will play host to a conference on “Neuroethics and Empirical Moral Psychology” from March 14 to March 16. See more here. It looks pretty interesting (and free of charge). Among the speakers are John Bickle, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Morse. John [...]

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Special issue on ToM

The new issue (number 3-4, September-December 2006) of Social Neuroscience is a hefty double issue tome dedicated to the topic of Theory of Mind. It contains 20 papers by several of the leaders in the field, and is edited by Rebecca Saxe and Simon Baron-Cohen. One of the reasons for the enduring interest in ToM [...]

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