Canadian-German Research Project: Normality, Normalization and Enhancement in the Neurosciences: Ethical, Sociocultural and Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Cognitive Enhancement
University of Mainz
7/8 July 2011
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2, Mainz
Agenda
Thursday, 7 July
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.: | Welcome |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: | Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Enhancing the Will, Walter Glannon, University of Calgary |
| 11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.: | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 a.m.: | Epidemiology of Pharmacological Neuroenhancement in Germany, Andreas G. Franke, University Medical Center, Mainz |
| 12:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Consumption of Psychopharmaceutical Prescription Drugs by Healthy People: Efficacy and Safety, Dimitris Repantis. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Work-related Stress as a Cause for Cognitive Enhancement among University Teachers, Constantin Wiegel, Sebastian Sattler, Martin Diewald, Bielefeld University & Anja S. Göritz, Würzburg University |
| 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Cognitive Enhancement Through Neuroscience: Normative and Practical Issues, Hank Greely, Stanford University |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement: The construction of a debate and the need for self-reflection, Christopher Coenen, Arianna Ferrari, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Cognitive Enhancement: What Students Told Us, Elisabeth Hildt, University of Mainz |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Randomized Response for Estimating the Prevalence of Substance Use for Cognitive Enhancement in Students, Pavel Dietz, University of Mainz |
| 7:30 p.m. | Dinner: Restaurant Heiliggeist, Mailandsgasse 11, Mainz |
Friday, 8 July
| 9: 00 a.m.– 10:30 a.m. | Should Peter get a new brain? Neurotechnology and self-transformation in the Rx generation, Ilina Singh, London School of Economics |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Enhancing Empathy: Effecting an Ethics of Care or Engineering Carebots Who Love Too Much?, Robin Mackenzie, University of Kent |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True? Implications of Neuroenhancement for Authenticity in Human Existence, Lisa Forsberg, King's College London |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Cognitive Enhancement: A Means or a Threat to Authenticity?, Ying-Tung Lin, University of Mainz |
| 12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Principles of Justice as Criteria for Assessing Psycho-pharmacological Enhancement, Veljko Dubljević, University of Tübingen |
| 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Diagnostic Misconceptions? Epistemological and Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Research on Cognitive Impairment and Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Lara K. Kutschenko, University Medical Center, Mainz |
| 2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Pharmacological Enhancement: An Answer to the Challenges of an Aging Society!?, Jakov Gather, University Medical Center, Mainz |
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Optimising – Normalising? Individual Choice in the Age of (Cognitive) Enhancement, Lara Huber, University Medical Center, Mainz/TU Braunschweig |
| 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Harmonizing Empirical and Normative Approaches in Neuroethics: the Case of Cognitive Enhancement, Roland Nadler, University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Social and Emotional Enhancement: Beta Blocker Reduce Prejudice and Affect Moral Judgments, Sylvia Terbeck, University of Oxford |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Final Discussion |