Neuroethics and Forensics: Contemporary Issues and Questions

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Neuroethics and Forensics: Contemporary Issues and Questions

In Person

October 22, 2026

4:00 pm EDT - 5:15 pm EDT

Location: Melucci Theater

Neuroethics is the discipline that, broadly, considers ethical issues in neuroscience. Within this domain, there is extensive reflection on neuroscience and the legal system. Dr. Beauregard's talk will examine some issues at the forefront of forensic neuroethics including the uses of neuroimaging in the legal system (as well as public perceptions of neuroimaging data), free will and criminal responsibility "Brain reading," cognitive liberty and cognitive privacy.

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Meet the Speaker:

James Beauregard Ph.D. is a clinical neuropsychologist and neuroethicist who taught for many years at Rivier University in Nashua, NH. His research interests are in the fields of neuroethics and personalist philosophy including the intersection of these two areas as they impact our understandings of personhood.

He is a member of the Spanish Personalist Association and the International Neuroethics Society, and serves as an Associated Scholar at the Hildebrand Project at Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio. In 2021 he was asked to serve on the Committee on Consciousness, Neuroscience and Ethics at the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican. He has also presented at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the social and ethical implications of neurotechnology.

His current research includes preparation of a book on Neuroethics and Catholic bioethical tradition, and work on the aesthetic theory of Dietrich von Hildebrand.