SPEAKERS
Keynotes - for the abstracts please go to "Programme"
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JEAN DECETY is a neuroscientist specializing in developmental, affective and social neuroscience. His research focuses on the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underpinning social cognition, particularly emotion, empathy, moral reasoning, altruism, pro-social behaviour, and more generally interpersonal processes. He is the Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, co-director of the Brain Research Imaging Center at UChicago Medicine, head of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and director of the Child NeuroSuite at UChicago.
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JACKIE LEACH SCULLY held research fellowships in oncology and neurobiology at research institutes in Switzerland, before helping to establish the first interdisciplinary unit for bioethics at the University of Basel. In 2008 she joined PEALS (the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre) as Director of Research and is now its Executive Director. Her research interests are in the regulation of genetic and reproductive medicine, and in the more general areas of bioethics, disability, the social construction of moral issues, and in feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to understanding moral processes.
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JESSE PRINZ is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as a Research Professor in the Chapel Hill Philosophy Department. He is one of the most important philosophers of mind, having made a name for himself in the field of empirically informed philosophy. “Empirically informed philosophy” is one of the most significant developments of recent years and of great importance for our understanding of the area where philosophy and empirical sciences intersect.
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Reading/talk - for further information please go to "Programme"
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DENISE RILEY is active across the full range of poetic life - poet, essayist, teacher, editor, researcher - and beyond, with her interests extending to politics, history, philosophy, feminist theory and visual art. She lectures at the University of East Anglia in several of these areas, and is attached to the European Graduate School. Her visiting positions have included A.D. White Professor at Cornell University in the USA, Writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London, and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College in the University of London. |
Talks and readings within pre-conference workshops
For the names and bionotes of the special guests at the pre-conference workshops, click to this page.
For the names and bionotes of the special guests at the pre-conference workshops, click to this page.