Background
Developments in the neurosciences – a broad term that includes molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology and other neurotechnologies – raise a host of social, philosophical, historical, political, legal, ethical and economic issues that demand and necessitate informed dialogue and debate across disciplinary boundaries and within wider public and policy-making circles. This includes fundamental questions, challenges and opportunities regarding:
- Human nature and the future of humankind
- Mind, self, will, intentionality and behaviour
- Health and illness, normality and abnormality, treatment and enhancement, risk and responsibility
Warwick is well placed to contribute to these agendas, given the wealth of expertise and scholarship relating to the neurosciences and society across Warwick Faculties – work that spans the biological sciences, the medical school, sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, economics, the business school and engineering.
The Neuroscience & Society Group @Warwick, funded initially through the Institute of Advanced Study, seeks to capitalise on this expertise and interest, providing a mechanism for collaboration between and across departments in order to build on this strength in a distinctly ‘Warwick way’.
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