Internship: Brain Waves Project
The Royal Society internship programme within its Science Policy Centre has been up and running since July 2009 with the aim of giving interns hand-on experience of working in science policy....
View ArticleConference: Situating Mental Illness Between Scientific Certainty and...
April 28-29th 2011, Berlin, Germany Contemporary neuroscience reduces mental illness to brain-based operations, instantiating a division between biology and culture, mechanism and context, brain and...
View ArticleRadio/iPlayer: The medicalisation of misbehaviour
Are we too willing to excuse bad behaviour as the morally-neutral symptom of newly-defined mental disorders? A combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo,...
View ArticleEvent: Neuroscience and Neuromania
Tuesday, 14 June 2011 6.30pm – 8.00pm, followed by a drinks reception The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 Professor Raymond Tallis in conversation with Professor Robin Dunbar...
View ArticleJob: Project leader at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Fixed term 12 month contract (to start no later than the beginning of July 2012) Salary range: £42,995 – £47,986 The Nuffield Council on Bioethics examines the ethical issues raised by advances in...
View ArticleEvent: 2014 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics
Thursday 30 October 2014, 5.30pm-6.45pm, Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre, Oxford. Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ‘Implicit Moral Attitudes’ Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on...
View ArticleConference: The Human Sciences after the Decade of the Brain – Perspectives...
March 30th – March 31st, 2015 Philosophy Department, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany It is now almost 25 years since the U.S. Congress authorized the then president, George Bush sr., to...
View ArticlePhD scholarship: Neuroethics at Monash University
Closing date for expressions of interest: Friday 26 February 2015, 11:55 p.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time A PhD scholarship, equivalent to an Australian Postgraduate Award, is available to examine...
View ArticleJob: Research Fellow in Neuroethics at Oxford University
University of Oxford – Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities Location: Oxford Salary: £31,076 to £36,001 Grade 7 p.a. Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Job Ref: 130447...
View ArticleRadio: ‘Neurolaw and Order’ on the BBC World Service
Neurolaw and Order, available now online and as a podcast The Documentary The latest findings in neuroscience are increasingly affecting the justice system in America. Owen Jones, professor of law and...
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