José Ignacio Murillo, director of project "Mind-Brain", together with Professor Franco Poterzio. PHOTO:

Eight members of the project "Mind-Brain: Biology and subjectivity in the Philosophy and in contemporary neuroscience" of Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) participated in the organization and development of the congress "Neuroscience and moral action" that took place at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome) from February 28 to March 1.

Several internationally renowned researchers took part in the event, quotation, to delve into the problem of freedom from the perspective of neuroscience, psychotherapy and ethics, studying the relationship between freedom and the field of biology and the influence of the brain on morally free behavior.

The members of project who participated were José Ángel Lombo, from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, who was part of the Organizing committee ; Thomas Fuchs, from the University of Heidelberg; Sergio Sánchez Migallón, from the University of Navarra; Luis Echarte, director of the subproject "Habits and Neuroethics", one of the three subprojects that make up the research line of the ICS "Mind-Brain"; Miguel García-Valdecasas, director of the subproject "Identity, Cognition and Action"; José Manuel Giménez Amaya and Russell Wilcox.

In addition, the director of project "Mind-Brain", José Ignacio Murillo, was part, together with professors Martin Rhonheimer and Juan José Sanguineti, from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, of the roundtable entitled "Naturalism and Moral Action. Neuroscientific Challenges for Human Freedom" which closed the congress.

The project of research "Mind-Brain" of the ICS participates and organizes national and international events. The international echo of its first Workshop last September, the seminars given by internationally recognized researchers, and the success of its participation in the 40th Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and in the 2nd organized by the Society for Neuroethics, held in San Diego (USA), are a prelude to the organization of its next congress graduate "Biology and Subjectivity" to be held at the University between 6 and 8 April.