Penn Media Seminar on Neuroscience and Society
Penn Club of New YorkSeptember 19, 2008
Program:
Introductory Comments. Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Professor of Neurology; member, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (Moderator)
Living in a Neurosociety: An Overview. Dr. Martha Farah, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology; director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
What Lurks Behind the Brain Image: Differentiating Neuroscience from Neuro-Bunk. Dr. Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Assistant Professor of Neurology; member, Center for Functional Neuroimaging
Are Better Brains Better? Anjan Chatterjee
Transhumanism: Enabling and Transcending the Human Brain. Dr. Susan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; affiliated faculty, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
The Criminal Brain: How, Could, and Should We Change It? Dr. Adrian Raine, Richard Perry University Professor, Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology; Chair, Department of Criminology
The Brain and the Person: Does Neuroscience Challenge Personal Moral Agency? Dr. Stephen Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry