13th Annual Summer Conference
July 13-15, 2006
Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL
Plenary Speakers
Thursday, July 13
- With All Your Mind - Andrew Fergusson, MB MRCGP
- How Much Brain Do I Need to be Human? - Scott B. Rae, PhD
Friday, July 14
- Boosting Your Brain Power: Therapies and Enhancement - William P. Cheshire, MD
- Prozac Prose and the Ritalin Revolution - Jarrett Richardson III, MD
- Hollywood Bioethics: An Analysis of How Neuroethics is Portrayed in the Movies - Andrew Fergusson, MB MRCGP and Matthew Eppinett, MA
Saturday, July 15
- Coma: Anyone Home? - Cindy Province, RN, MSN, MA
- Capacity: Clinicians and Caregivers - Jason E. Havens, JD
- Changing Times - Edmund Pellegrino, MD and Thomas Pellegrino, MD
Parallel Papers
Friday, July 14
- Ronald Reagan's Brain and the Politics of Personal Identity - Russell DiSilvestro, PhD (Cand)
- Limiting Technology at the End-of-Life - John T. Dunlop
- Teaching Bioethics in Ecuador - Dennis L. Durst, PhD
- Unsociable Cyborgs - David B. Fletcher, PhD
- Neuroethics and the Nicene Creed: Reflecting on the Theology of the Early Church Fathers - Derrick L. Hassert, PhD
- What is Progress? - Joal Hill, JD, MPH, PhD
- Free Will in Mechanistic and Indeterminist Models of the Brain - Luke Johnson, PhD (candidate)
- Brain-Mind, Body-Soul Interfaces - Philip E. Lueck, DMin
- Governor Blagojevich's Government Religion - Donald O'Connor, MS
- Evangelical Attitudes Towards Human Enhancement - David G. Pauls, MD
Saturday, July 15
- Treatment and Enhancement - Steven Brown, PhD, and Matthew Jordan, MA
- Interaction Between the Self and the Brain - Nigel Crompton, PhD, and Erin Tidd
- Moral Distress in the Workplace - Karla Fogel, PhD
- Embodiment, Boundedness, and Incarnation - Susan M. Haack, MD
- Domo Arigato, Mrs. Roboto: A Novelist Learns from Artificial Intelligence and Live to Tell About It - Christina Bieber Lake, PhD
- Using the Brain in Bioethics - Donal O'Mathuna, PhD
- Feeding Tubes in the Permanently Unaware - Robert Orr, MD
- Moral Complicity and Stem Cell Research: Countering the Utilitarian Argument - Dennis M. Sullivan, MD
- Dynamic Dialogue: A New Model for Relating Science & Theology - Timothy Pattison, MDiv
- Bioethics in Britain: Bringing a European Perspective to the Debate on Current and Future Bioethics Issues - Philippa Taylor, BA, and Rhona Knight, MB, MRCGP
Courses
- Intensive Bioethics Institute - Paige Cunningham, JD
- Advanced Bioethics Institute - John Kilner, PhD and David Fletcher, PhD
- Body, Soul, Mind, Spirit Topical Institute - Scott B. Rae, PhD and J.P. Moreland, PhD
- Pre-Med/Undergraduate Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Wrap-Around Conference Graduate Course - Dennis Hollinger, PhD
- Wrap-Around Conference Undergraduate Course - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Post-Conference Bioethics Seminar: Neurological Challenges: Shepherding Individuals and Families - Bryan N. Maier, PsyD
- Post-Conference Bioethics Seminar: What if? Neuroethics in Film and Fiction - William P. Cheshire, MD and E. David Cook, PhD
