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When: Tuesday, March 7, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Where: Macquarie University Campus, C8A 310 (Senate Room - near the coffee cart) See the campus map on next page
Department of Global Health and Social MedicineKing’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK Email: [email protected] Website: http://nikolasrose.com
neurotechnologies for risk assessment, pre-emptive intervention, and their role in ‘law
enforcement’ and ‘crowd control’, and some questions arising from machine
learning and artificial intelligence. The challenges posed by the ‘dual use’ potential of some advances in neuroscience, where technologies
intended for civilian purposes also have military and security uses, are
particularly significant at a time when the boundaries between the
criminal justice and the wider security system are increasingly blurred.
Abstract In this talk I will explore the actual and potential impacts of developments in neuroscience and neurotechnology in the criminal justice system beyond the courtroom. There has been much discussion about the role of genetics and brain scanning in criminal trials and their impact on the legal fiction of free will, although evidence that genetic or brain based defences succeed in exculpation is equivocal. In this talk, I will focus elsewhere, and explore the impact of claims to be able to ‘read the brain’ in neural lie detection and beyond, the potential uses of novel
The Australian Neurolaw Database Project and the Agency and Moral Cognition Network present a seminar:
Neurotechnologies of justice: Neuroscience beyond the courtroom
By Professor Nikolas Rose
Biographical note:Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Kings College London which he founded in 2012. He was previously Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of the LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, which he founded in 2003. He is founder and co-editor of BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences and is a long-time editor of Economy and Society. His most recent books include The Politics of Life Itself : Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (2007); Governing The Present (written with Peter Miller, 2008) and Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (written with Joelle Abi-Rached, 2013). He is currently seeking to build new relations between the social sciences and the life sciences, partly through research on mental health, migration and megacities;
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arising from this, The Urban Brain: Living in the Neurosocial City (with Des Fitzgerald) will be published by Princeton University Press in 2018. He is also currently completing a long overdue book on Our Psychiatric Future? to be published by Polity Press in 2018.
