March 6, 2012

2012 Moral Brain Conference at NYU
By S. Matthew Liao

Please find below the Final Program for the 2012 Bioethics Conference: The Moral Brain. Although we have reached capacity, we strongly encourage you to RSVP so that you can be placed on the waitlist. We will contact you as soon as space becomes available. The direct link for RSVP is at

http://goo.gl/PXHmO

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Posted on March 6, 2012 at 7:01 am in Bioethics, Conference Announcement, Neuroethics, Neuroscience of Morality, S. Matthew Liao's Posts | Leave a Comment

April 9, 2011

CFP: Normative Implications of Moral Psychology
By S. Matthew Liao

University of Alabama at Birmingham
NOVEMBER 11-13, 2011
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2011

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) invites papers for a conference on the normative implications of recent work in moral psychology, broadly construed. The conference will be held in Birmingham, AL on November 11-13, 2011.

The conference, to be hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics and Values in the Sciences, will examine connections between moral psychology and normative issues in law, bioethics, social and politics issues, well-being, and similar topics. We welcome interdisciplinary research involving psychology, neuroscience, law, medicine, public health, political science, economics, game theory, and related fields.

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Posted on April 9, 2011 at 5:05 am in Conference Announcement, Moral Psychology, Neuroscience of Morality, S. Matthew Liao's Posts | Leave a Comment

March 21, 2008

Utilitarianism and the Brain
By Guy Kahane

Everybody’s heard about Joshua Greene’s fMRI studies of moral judgement. Many have also heard about the study by Koenigs, Young, Adolphs, Cushman, Tranel, Cushman, Hauser and Damasio of patients with prefrontal damage. In a communication I co-authored with Nick Shackel and which has just come out in Nature, we criticise the methodology used in these studies.

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Posted on March 21, 2008 at 10:49 pm in Guy Kahane's Posts, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Neuroscience of Morality, Normative Ethics | 3 Comments