Workshop Series: Neuroethics, New York, 2003-2004

目前神经科学监测和改变大脑功能的能力具有深刻的伦理意义，科学家和公众才刚刚开始对此进行研究。最近的两个主要会议致力于调查神经科学进展的伦理含义，一个在宾夕法尼亚大学举行，题为“伦理学和认知神经科学革命”，另一个在斯坦福大学举行，题为“神经伦理学：绘制领域”。这些会议促进了思想在个人和广大公众之间的传播。当前的系列研讨会将采取下一步，以相关专家之间的密集对话的形式，为神经伦理学领域提供形式和方向。具体而言，会议旨在实现以下目标：(1)确定神经伦理学最优先的问题；(2)阐明科学进步和障碍；(3)聘请与每个特定问题最相关的领域的伦理学家和政策专家，以帮助理解最直接相关的道德原则和社会传统，现有的相关法规或政策，以及其他领域的类似先例；(4)与相关科学家和伦理学家合作，就每个问题共同制定政策立场；(5)每期撰写并提交一篇总结主要结论的文章，在读者广泛的期刊或综合性期刊上发表。

The current capability of neuroscience to monitor and alter brain function has profound ethical implications, which scientists and the public have only begun to examine. Two recent major conferences were devoted to surveying the ethical implications of progress in neuroscience, one at the University of Pennsylvania entitled "Ethics and the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution" and one at Stanford University entitled "Neuroethics: Mapping the Field." These conferences promoted the dissemination of ideas among individuals and the wider public. The current series of workshops will take the next step, in the form of intensive dialogue among relevant experts that will give form and direction to the field of neuroethics. Specifically, the meetings are designed to accomplish the following objectives: (1) Define issues of highest priority for neuroethics; (2) Elucidate scientific progress and obstacles; (3) Engage ethicists and policy specialists in the areas most relevant to each particular issue, to help understand the most directly relevant moral principles and social traditions, relevant regulations or policies now in place, and analogous precedents in other fields; (4) With the relevant scientists and ethicists, collaboratively develop policy positions on each issue; and (5) For each issue, write and submit an article summarizing the major conclusions for publication in a widely read or generalist journal.