Titel: Neuro-Reality Check. Scrutinizing the ‘neuro-turn’ in the humanities and natural sciences.

Termin: 1.12.2011, 14:00 Uhr, bis 3.12.2011, 14:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.critical-neuroscience.org/events

Kurzbeschreibung: The workshop brings together scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds with the aim of stepping back a little - and of probing deeper into the alleged effects and actual causes of the ongoing neurohype. The aim, in other words, is to encourage a more de-centred kind of analysis than the one typically pursued: Why, for instance, is it that art historians or political theorists choose to eschew ‘theory’ in favour of neuroscientific wisdom? Which ideological sea-changes reside behind the frequently proclaimed ‘crisis’ in the humanities, and how do they resonate with the turn to the ‘neuro’? What are the interests and economic conditions driving the mushrooming of interdisciplinary neuro-X academic subfields in the contemporary academic landscape? Or again, is it really – empirically - the case that we are on the verge on of a ‘neuro-revolution’, our life-worlds, language and habits already being subtly transformed?

Kontakt: Suparna Choudhury
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
schoudhury@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Veranstalter: Critical Neuroscience

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Suparna Choudhury(MPIWG, Berlin), Max Stadler (ETH, Zurich)

Schlagworte: Ethiktheorie, Hirnforschung