Conference Proposal Neuroethics: Mapping the Field

基础神经科学和临床神经科学知识的迅速发展，不仅为治疗衰弱性疾病带来了希望，而且改变了我们对大脑如何工作的理解，从而改变了我们对人类思想、人格、责任和个人身份的看法。一个由来自斯坦福大学和加州大学旧金山分校的神经科学家和生物伦理学学者组成的计划委员会组织了一次探索性会议，将于2002年5月13日至14日在旧金山举行，以定义和绘制一个新的领域：“神经伦理学”。在达纳基金会的支持下，这次最先进的会议将为神经科学家、伦理学和人文学科学者以及公共政策制定者提供一个讨论和辩论的论坛。会议的主要成果将是一份摘要出版物，面向受过教育的外行听众，阐述神经伦理学这个新领域的挑战。这份文件将广泛分发给科学家、研究资助者和政策制定者。以会议记录为基础的一组文章，主要针对学术读者，将单独出版。达纳基金会资助了会议的策划、组织和后勤，包括演讲者的所有费用以及摘要出版物的制作和分发。我们要求国家科学研究所和国家生物伦理研究所提供补充资金，以支持65人的旅行津贴，以确保尽可能广泛地参加会议，特别是初级学者、少数民族和妇女，他们在科学和生物伦理会议上的代表人数往往不足。预计出席人数为80人（包括演讲者在内的100人），以便进行讨论。在节目主持人的介绍下，会议将分为四个主要环节：1 .脑科学与自我。2。脑科学与社会政策。3。伦理与脑科学实践。脑科学与公共话语。由规划委员会成员主持的会议将鼓励跨学科的互动。需要解决的问题涉及理论（脑科学的发现将如何影响我们对自由意志的理解？）、临床（干细胞移植、药物或神经假肢会改变个人身份吗？）和政策领域（如果吸毒成瘾是一种脑部疾病，社会和法律体系应该如何应对？）

Rapidly expanding knowledge in the basic and clinical neurosciences offers not only the promise of dramatic cures for debilitating illness but a transformed understanding of how the brain works, thus altering our view of the human mind, personhood, responsibility, and personal identity. A planning committee of neuroscientists and bioethics scholars from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco have organized an exploratory conference, to be held in San Francisco, May 13-14 2002, to define and chart a new field: "neuroethics." With support from the Dana Foundation, this state of the art conference will provide a forum for discussion and debate among neuroscientists, scholars in ethics and in humanities, and public policy markers. The primary outcome of he conference will be a summary publication addressed to an educated lay audience setting forth the challenges of a new field-neuroethics. This document will be broadly distributed to scientists, research funders, and policy makers. A set of articles based on the conference proceedings, aimed primarily at an academic audience, will be published separately. The Dana Foundation has funded conference planning, organization, and logistics, including all expenses for speakers and the production and distribution of the summary publication. We request supplemental funding from NINDS and NIDA to support travel stipends for 65 individuals in order to assure the broadest possible attendance at the conference, particularly by junior scholars, minorities and women, who are often under-represented at scientific and bioethics conferences. Attendance is projected at 80 conferees (100 participants including speakers) in order to allow discussion. Following an introduction by the program chair, the conference will be divided into four main sessions: I. Brain Science and the Self. II. Brain Science and Social Policy. III. Ethics and the Practice of Brain Science. IV. Brain Science and Public Discourse. Sessions, chaired by members of the planning committee, will encourage interaction across disciplines. Questions to be addressed span theoretical (How will findings in brain science affect our understanding of free will?), clinical (Will stem cell transplants, drugs, or neuroprostheses transform personal identity?), and policy domain (If drug addiction is a brain disease, how should society and the legal system respond?).