Consortium on Law and Values - The Ethical BrainProfessor Gazzaniga's (SAGECenter - Director) work focuses on how the brain works and produces ideas, including morals. Gazzaniga has brought his work on brain function to many people through his numerous books and his participation in several public television specials. He also sits on the President's Council on Bioethics. Professor Gazzaniga's lecture on "The Ethical Brain" will explain how neuroscience contributes to our understanding of everyday ethical issues, such as whether an embryo has the moral status of a human being. He will argue that neuroscience has little to say about concepts such as free will and personal responsibility. However, cognitive neuroscience does suggest how brain research will instruct us on universal morals possessed by all members of our species. This fundamental development will find cognitive neuroscience becoming central to the modern world's view of ethical universals.
