Adore Ethics Workshop | October 29 | 13:00 – 15:30

Step into the laboratory of the mind!

Workshop on ethics: knowledge and scientific reasoning in your lab

What does it mean to know something? What would happen if we had access to every scientific fact in the universe? What role does ethics have in scientific research?In this interactive workshop, we will explore these questions and consider how they relate to your own work.

We will examine different ways of arriving at knowledge, from logical reasoning and empirical observation to scientific explanation and lived experience.  We will do this by performing experiments, not at the bench, but through thought-experiments in the laboratory of the mind!

Ethics Parallel Research will be introduced as an approach that bridges these different forms of knowledge. You will explore how this approach can also be applied in your own scientific research through ethical themes such as fairness, bias, mismatch and uncertainty.

Workshop facilitators

The workshop will be led by:

• Karin Jongsma
  Professor of Ethics of Medical Biotechnology, UMC Utrecht
  Katherine Bassil
  Assistant Professor in Neuroethics, UMC Utrecht
  Sabria Ait Ahmed
  PhD student, UMC Utrecht

Practical information

Date: 29 October 2026
Time: 13:00–15:30
Location: RDC Adore