The department Ethics in the Neurosciences (INM8) investigates philosophical, psychological, ethical and social issues resulting from neuroscientific research. The disciplines represented in the INM8 are ethics, philosophy of psychology and social sciences.

Key topics of research are the following: ‘person and personality’, ‘representation and psychophysical correlation’, and ‘modeling in the neurosciences’.

We apply methods from philosophy of science and epistemology, conceptual analysis, normative evaluation as well as empirical social research.