On October 4 and 5 2007, experts from the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany met at the University of Delft to hold a workshop on “The Ethics of Neuroimaging”. According to the organizer, Aldus Lokhorst, this was the first Dutch event on “neuroethics”, to use the new term that has become familiar since the early 2000s. The agenda comprised several issues including the state of the art of neuroimaging, legal and ethical issues related to that research as well as philosophical questions concerning the prospects and limitations of investigating the human brain. Even though the participants came from various disciplines, including philosophy, law, and psychology, it was surprising that no Dutch neuroscientist participated in the workshop. Because the organizers had tried persistently to get these researchers involved, they inferred that at the current stage their empirical colleagues' interest in ethical, legal and social aspects of the investigation of the brain must be low. Considering that the recent boom of neuroethics in the United States was strongly sustained by neuroscientists, the Dutch researchers' apparent lack of interest is surprising.