Kathinka Evers

Research with a focus on philosophy of mind, neurophilosophy, neuroethics, bioethics and artificial intelligence. Professor ad honoram at Universidad Central de Chile.

Kathinka Evers' research focuses on the philosophy of mind and brain, bioethics, and neuroethics. She is Professor ad honoram at the Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, and directs the teaching and research on neuroethics at Uppsala University. She led the research on philosophy and neuroethics in the FET Flagship Human Brain Project from 2013 to 2023.

Today, Kathinka Evers co-leads philosophy research in the Horizon 2020-projects Neurotwin and CAVAA. She is also interested in the social responsibility of science, having held various positions on committees and scientific review panels over the years. Since her first public lecture at the University of Oxford in 1990, she has lectured extensively at universities and research centres.

Publications

Neuroethics

  • Michele Farisco
  • Karl Sallin

Kathinka Evers is Professor of philosophy, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor ad honoram at the Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago. She has been Invited Professor on the Chair Condorcet at École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2002); at Collège de France, Paris (2006 -7). 2013-2021, she was member of the Science and Infrastructure Board of the European Flagship, the Human Brain Project, where she has directed the Ethics and Society Subproject and the Philosophy and Neuroethics research. She led the research on Philosophy and Neuroethics within the Human Brain Project until the end of the project, 2023.

Kathinka Evers' research focuses on philosophy of mind and brain, bioethics and neuroethics. She directs the teaching and research on neuroethics at Uppsala University, where she started the first courses in the subject. She presently co-leads philosophy research in the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation projects Neurotwin and Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture (CAVAA).

She is also interested in the social responsibility of science, and was between 1997 and 2002 Executive Director for the Standing Committee for Ethics and Responsibility in Science of ICSU (International Council for Science); and 2008-2014, Expert in Scientific Review Panels for the ERC on ‘The Human Mind and Its Complexity’. Since her first public lectures at the University of Oxford in 1990, she has lectured extensively at universities and research centre.

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