The Capital Consortium for Neuroscience: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (CCNELSI) brings together faculty and students from academic and research institutions, as well as interested individuals from the general public and media within the greater Washington Metropolitan Area. CCNELSI presents, discusses and examines new and novel developments in neuroscience, as they pertain to the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and neuroethical issues in research, medicine and the social sphere. These topics are often controversial and provocative, and give rise to vibrant discussion, thereby stimulating the exchange of ideas and perspectives while deepening insight and forging dialectic.

CCNELSI aims to review, assess, and scrutinize progress in neuroscience, neurotechnology and the ethical, legal and social issues generated from these fields. Lectures explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of neuroscience and their effects upon the status quo of existing paradigms and social thought, defining the potential, questions, boundaries and limitations of neuroscientific and neurotechnological inquiry and use.

The monthly discussions at CCNELSI bring guest lecturers from the international academic and policy communities together with faculty and student scholars from the greater metropolitan D.C. area. As well, CCNELSI is a forum for local scholars to present and discuss their work and its implications, and in this way is a nexus to the neuroethics community, at-large.

Toward this end, the active participation of local area academicians and researchers is encouraged, allowing CCNELSI to be a platform for their interests and ideas to be expressed and discussed.

Lectures are held at:

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
901 N. Stuart Street, Suite 200
Arlington, VA

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Admission is free of charge

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CCNELSI is an initiative of, and supported in part by: the Center for Neurotechnology Studies of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and Neurobioethics.org.