Who We Are

The Center for Cognition and Neuroethics (CCN) is a joint venture between the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan-Flint and the Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience (IINN).

CCN supports interdisciplinary ventures with the conviction that the skills and knowledge that individuals from different disciplines and professions bring to a partnership enrich and inform the others, thereby creating unique, synergistic research that would not be possible in an isolated disciplinary environment.

What We Do

CCN breaks down barriers that exist between scholarly disciplines and that surround professions. We support research activities across multiple fields and professions by creating, fostering, and supporting collaborations and communication across student and professional spheres. From opening doors for students to advancing careers of professionals, from working with local clinicians to collaborating with scholars around the world, our activities set in motion intellectual and creative growth that will have long-lasting and valuable impact.

Why

Our mission is to inspire students and professionals to challenge and transform ideas, to provide valuable communal and research spaces, to provide the points of interaction that create opportunities for connections, collaborations and partnerships, and to connect sympathetic scholars, policy makers, activists, artists, teachers and students throughout the world. Underlying all CCN operations is one simple question: is there a better way? In everything we do, we seek out and implement better approaches to help us achieve CCN’s goals efficiently and to optimally support the efforts of our project partners.