Projekt

In response to the scientific as well as public and cultural developments in and around the neurosciences, this research group bridges perspectives from philosophy, anthropology, ethics and experimental neuroscience. This project is informed by a meta-scientific stance called "Critical Neuroscience" and is being developed so that the questions, implications, and dynamics within this field and the consequences for individuals, society at large and even the entire human species can be systematically understood. Overall, this project aims at a wide-ranging contextualization of current neuroscientific practice. It combines three closely interconnected interdisciplinary projects. Project 1 assesses the impact of the advancing neurosciences and neurotechnologies on individual human beings. Project 2 develops the idea of "Critical Neuroscience". It assesses and informs neuroscientific practice and develops a risk taxonomy, which highlights and analyses practical and epistemic risks resulting from neuroscience and its applications, as well as those societal developments which threaten to put neuroscience itself at risk. Project 3 seeks to provide contributions to a contemporary anthropology that contextualizes the concept of man in light of new (Neuro)technologies.

• Dr. Jan Slaby, M. A.

  Universität Osnabrück
  Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft
  Osnabrück
  

• Dr. Suparna Choudhury

  McGill University
  Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
  Montreal, Quebec
  Kanada (Canada)
  

• Dr. Thorsten Galert

  EA European Academy of Technology
  and Innovation Assessment GmbH
  Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
  

• Jan-Christoph Heilinger, M.A.

  Berlin-Brandenburgische
  Akademie der Wissenschaften
  Interdisciplinary Research Group "Humanprojekt"
  Berlin
  

• Dr. Ahmed A. Karim

  Universität Tübingen
  Institut für Medizinische Psychologie &
  Verhaltensneurobiologie
  Tübingen
  

• Dr. Lambros Malafouris

  University of Cambridge
  McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
  Cambridge
  Grossbritannien
  

• Dr. Saskia Nagel

  Universität Osnabrück
  Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften
  Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft
  Osnabrück
  

• Stephan Schleim

  Universität Bonn
  Abt. für Medizinische Psychologie
  Bonn
  

• Dr. Felicitas Krämer

  Universität Düsseldorf
  Philosophisches Institut
  Düsseldorf