Research Areas
Across campus, faculty and students engage in projects addressing the social, ethical, and legal implications of neuroscience.
From wide-ranging inquiries in neuromarketing, neuroscience and moral judgments, academic integrity, and psychopathy, Duke students and faculty work together to understand human motivations and behavior. Participants in the Bass Connections Brain & Society theme explore how emerging ideas in neuroscience link to intellectual and social challenges. Through education and integrated problem solving teams, students and faculty examine connections between research in neuroscience and challenging questions in medicine, the humanities, public policy, economics, ethics, and law. The MadLab, (Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making Lab) at the Kenan Institute for Ethics examines why people think and do what they do through the lenses of psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and sociology.
Participating Faculty
- Roberto Cabeza, PhD (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience)
- Nita Farahany, JD, PhD (Science & Society, Philosophy, Law)
- Owen Flanagan, PhD (Philosophy, Neurobiology)
- Scott Huettel, PhD (Duke Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Science, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Psychology & Neuroscience)
- Craig Roberts, PhD (Duke Institute for Brain Sciences)
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, PhD (Practical Ethics, Philosophy)
Representative Courses
- Neuroethics (Law)
- Reason & Argument (Philosophy)