Patricia Churchland 講演会のお知らせ

Patricia Churchland 講演会のお知らせ

「心の哲学」を代表する研究者であり、近年では脳神経倫理について研究を遂行されている Patricia Churchland 教授（カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校哲学科）を迎え、講演会を開催いたします。ふるって御参加ください。

■講演タイトル：The Neural Platform for Morality
■日時：2010年12月16日（木）　15時00分～17時00分

■会場：東京大学 工学部2号館 9階 93B教室
　　　【http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html】
　　　　地下鉄丸の内線・大江戸線[本郷三丁目駅]から徒歩6分
　　　　地下鉄南北線[東大前駅]から徒歩8分

■参加費：無料（事前登録：不要）

■使用言語：英語

■発表要旨
Self-preservation is embodied in our brain’s circuitry: we seek food when hungry, warmth when cold, and sex when lusty. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, circuitry for regulating one’s own survival and well-being was modified. For sociality, the important result was that the ambit of me extends to include others — me-and-mine. Offspring, mates, and kin came to be embraced in the sphere of me-ness; we nurture them, fight off threats to them, keep them warm and safe. The brain knows these others are not me, but if I am attached to them, they fire-up me-ness circuitry, motivating other-care that resembles self-care. In some species, including humans, seeing to the well-being of others may extend, though less intensely, to include friends, business contacts or even strangers, in an ever-widening circle. Oxytocin, an ancient body-and-brain molecule, is at the hub of the intricate neural adaptations sustaining mammalian sociality. Not acting alone, oxytocin works with other hormones and neurotransmitters and structural adaptation. Among its many roles, oxytocin decreases the stress response, making possible the friendly, trusting interactions typical of life in social mammals. I can let my guard down when I know I am among trusted family and friends.

■本人による研究内容紹介
“I explore the impact of scientific developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, decision making, ethics, learning, and religion and issues concerning the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free will, as well as on more technical questions concerning to what degree the nervous system is hierarchically organized, how the difficult issue of co-ordination and timing is managed by nervous systems, and what are the mechanisms for the perceptual phenomenon of filling-in.”

■代表作
Neurophilosophy　（The MIT Press, 1986）,
The Computational Brain (共著, The MIT Press, 1992) ,
The Mind-Brain Continuum（共編， The MIT Press, 1996）,
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy (The MIT Press, 2002) など.
詳細は以下のURL参照。

http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/pschurchland/index_hires.html

■主催
東京大学 脳神経倫理研究連携ユニット

■お問い合わせ先
東京大学脳神経倫理研究連携ユニット事務局

http://sakuralab.jp/project

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