Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford is one of the world's great centres for philosophy. More than one hundred and fifty professional philosophers work in the University and its colleges, between them covering a vast range of subjects within philosophy. Many are international leaders in their fields. The Faculty of Philosophy is one of the largest departments of philosophy in the world, and is widely recognized to be amongst the best.
Its reputation draws many distinguished visiting philosophers; each year around fifty philosophers from around the world give lectures or seminars in Oxford. Almost every major philosopher speaks in Oxford at some time.
Each year, more than five hundred undergraduates are admitted to study philosophy in Oxford, always in combination with another subject. The Faculty also has more than a hundred graduate students, who are either taking a taught graduate degree or working for a doctorate.
Oxford is a collegiate university, and every registered student becomes a member of one of the colleges. In this way, he or she has access, not only to the very extensive libraries and facilities of the University, but also to the varied and more intimate life of a college. Colleges offer their students excellent libraries and facilities of their own.
Teaching at Oxford is by lectures and seminars, and by tutorials or supervisions. Courses of lectures and seminars are offered on a very large range of topics, for both undergraduates and graduates. Tutorials are a special feature of Oxford; undergraduates receive regular and frequent tutorials either individually or in pairs from members of the Faculty. All graduate students also receive frequent individual supervisions.
Oxford University dates from the 12th Century or before. The first colleges were founded in the 13th Century. The ancient buildings remain, mingled with magnificent architecture from subsequent centuries, to make Oxford one of the most inspiring and beautiful cities in the world. Within this setting, Oxford remains at the forefront of philosophy.
Series associated with Faculty of Philosophy
2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being
Accelerating AI Ethics
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Alan Turing on Computability and Intelligence
Bio-Ethics Bites
David Hume (2018)
Ethics in AI
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
General Philosophy
General Philosophy (2018)
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Hume's Central Principles
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
Journal of Practical Ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Special Lectures
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Practical Ethics Bites
Reid's Critique of Hume
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment
Rethinking Moral Status
Science and Religious Conflict Conference
The Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Podcasts
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation
Thinking Out Loud: leading philosophers discuss topical global issues
Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
Uehiro Oxford Institute
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| 238 | Creative Commons | Galen and the Ontology of Powers | Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Jim Hankinson | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 237 | Creative Commons | Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen | Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Brooke Holmes | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 236 | Creative Commons | On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy | Hans-Georg Moeller (University College Cork), gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Hans-Georg Moeller | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 235 | Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity | Philip van der Ejik gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Philip van der Ejik | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 234 | Creative Commons | A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy | Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held at Senate House, University of London on 3rd-5th October 2012. | Jessica Wilson | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 233 | Creative Commons | If I could just stop loving you: Anti-love drugs and the ethics of a chemical break-up | Emotional pain and difficulty in relationships is potentially dangerous and destructive. In this talk, I explore some of the potential uses and misuses of anti-love biotechnology from a scientific and ethical perspective. | Brian Earp | 04 Dec 2012 |
| 232 | Creative Commons | 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 1: Some Problems about Religion in the Political Sphere: the dangers of instability and violence | This series of lectures attempts to explore whether possible relations between some typical religious virtues, attitudes and practices and typical democratic virtues, attitudes and practices must be a source of conflict or can be mutually supportive. | Tony Coady | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 231 | Creative Commons | 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 2: Reason, Religion and Public Discourse in a Liberal Democracy | This series of lectures attempts to explore whether possible relations between some typical religious virtues, attitudes and practices and typical democratic virtues, attitudes and practices must be a source of conflict or can be mutually supportive. | Tony Coady | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 230 | Creative Commons | 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 3: Religious Virtues, Democratic Virtues and their interaction in Practice | This series of lectures attempts to explore whether possible relations between some typical religious virtues, attitudes and practices and typical democratic virtues, attitudes and practices must be a source of conflict or can be mutually supportive. | Tony Coady | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 229 | Creative Commons | The bad seed: facts and values in the study of childhood antisocial behaviour | The speaker presents some recent work that has been done on children who are seen to be at risk of violence; and raises questions about the social and ethical significance of studying children in this way and for this purpose. | Gwen Adshead | 19 Nov 2012 |
| 228 | Creative Commons | The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion | The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Abortion. | Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu | 24 Oct 2012 |
| 227 | Creative Commons | The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia | The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Euthanasia. | Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu | 23 Oct 2012 |
| 226 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Seminar: The Ethics of Creating Designer Babies | Julian Savulescu believes that if we can genetically alter the next generation, not only should we be free to do so, it may even turn out that in some circumstances we have an obligation to go ahead and do it. | Julian Savulescu | 18 Oct 2012 |
| 225 | Creative Commons | 8. Conclusion; Scepticism in the Treatise and the Enquiry | Eighth and final lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 224 | Creative Commons | 7. Scepticism with Regard to Reason, the Soul and the Self | Seventh lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 223 | Creative Commons | 6. Hume on the External World | Sixth lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 222 | Creative Commons | 5: Hume on Causal Necessity | Fifth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 221 | Creative Commons | 4: Hume on Induction | Fourth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 220 | Creative Commons | 3: Hume's Logic: Relations, and Forms of Argument | Third lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 219 | Creative Commons | 2. Overview, Theory of Ideas, and Faculty Psychology | Second lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 218 | Creative Commons | 1. Historical Background, and His 'Chief Argument' | First lecture on David Hume's Central Principles; focusing on the historical background and Hume's Chief Argument. | Peter Millican | 14 Aug 2012 |
| 217 | Creative Commons | 5. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy | Accompanying slides for Lectures 5a to 5c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 216 | Creative Commons | 4. Of Knowledge and Probability | Accompanying slides for Lectures 4a to 4f of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 215 | Creative Commons | 3. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time | Accompanying slides for Lectures 3a to 3c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 214 | Creative Commons | 1. Introduction, Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties | Accompanying Slides for Lectures 1a to 1c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 213 | Creative Commons | 5c. Of the Ancient and Modern Philosophies | Third and Final part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 212 | Creative Commons | 5b. Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses | Second part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 211 | Creative Commons | 5a. Of Skepticism with Regard to Reason | First part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 210 | Creative Commons | 4f. The Point of Hume's Analysis of Causation | Sixth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 209 | Creative Commons | 4e. Understanding Hume on Causation | Fifth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 208 | Creative Commons | 4d. Of the Necessary Connection | Fourth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 207 | Creative Commons | 4c. Belief and Probability | Third part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 206 | Creative Commons | 4b. The Argument Concerning Induction | Second part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 205 | Creative Commons | 4a. Relations, and a Detour to the Causal Maxim | First part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 204 | Creative Commons | 3b. Space and Time | Second part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 203 | Creative Commons | 3a. Hume's Theory of General (or Abstract) Ideas | First part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 202 | Creative Commons | 2. Hume's Theory of Relations | Lecture 2 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 201 | Creative Commons | 1c. Hume's Faculty Psychology | Third part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 200 | Creative Commons | 1b. The Theory of Ideas | Second part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 199 | Creative Commons | 1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties | First part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. | Peter Millican | 01 Aug 2012 |
| 198 | Creative Commons | Experimental Evidence for Morality As Accountability | Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). | Stephen Darwall | 25 Jul 2012 |
| 197 | Creative Commons | When the mind matters for morality | Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). | Liane Young | 25 Jul 2012 |
| 196 | Creative Commons | Accepting our natures. When should we accept the ways people tend to behave; when should we aim to change them? | Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). | Kwame Anthony Appiah | 25 Jul 2012 |
| 195 | Creative Commons | When Can('t) We Trust Our Moral Intuitions in Distributive Cases? | Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). | Alex Voorhoeve | 25 Jul 2012 |
| 194 | Creative Commons | Science, Responsibility and The Traffic Participation View on Human Agency | Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). | Maureen Sie | 25 Jul 2012 |
| 193 | Creative Commons | SRC Conference 'Reducing Religious Conflict': Round Table Discussion | Discussion of key themes emerging from a two-day interdisciplinary conference on reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Roger Trigg, Scott Atran, Julian Savulescu | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 192 | Creative Commons | How Might Understanding Human Groups Help Address Religious Conflict? | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Paul Troop | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 191 | Creative Commons | Local versus Global Dimensions of Religious Violence: The Case of the Caucasus | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Monica Toft | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 190 | Creative Commons | Intergroup Contact as a Means of Reducing Religious Conflict: Evidence from Belfast and Oldham | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Miles Hewstone | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 189 | Creative Commons | Religion and Religious Conflict: A Secular View | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Julian Savuelscu | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 188 | Creative Commons | Civility and Deep Disagreement: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Difference and Public Life | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Tony Coady | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 187 | Creative Commons | Religion in Conflict and Peacemaking, with Particular Reference to South Africa | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Liz Carmichael | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 186 | Creative Commons | Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Scott Atran | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 185 | Creative Commons | Can Emotion Regulation Change Political Attitudes in Intractable and Religious Conflict? From the Laboratory to the Field | Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). | Eran Halperin | 12 Jul 2012 |
| 184 | Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics | The brain disease model of addiction: Assessing its validity, utility and implications for public policy towards the treatment and prevention of addiction. | Wayne Hall | 20 Jun 2012 | |
| 183 | Counter-terrorism and its Ethical Hazards | Since the terrorist attacks by Islamic militants upon the US and UK in the early 2000s, a host of anti-terrorist measures have been introduced which raise conceptual and ethical issues that have serious implications for practical politics. | Tony Coady | 14 Jun 2012 | |
| 182 | Creative Commons | Philosophical Theory and the Justification of Terrorism | There is widespread belief that terrorism can never be morally justified, ut this belief is not widespread amongst philosophers; they offer a variety of justifications for some terrorist acts. | Tony Coady | 06 Jun 2012 |
| 181 | Creative Commons | St Cross Seminar: Informing Egg Donors of the Potential for Embryonic Research | Schaefer is currently reading for the B.Phil in Philosophy at Oxford. His interests lie in moral philosophy, especially applied ethics, as well as political philosophy and personal identity and he has a background in research ethics. | G Owen Schaefer | 30 May 2012 |
| 180 | Creative Commons | Geoengineering: Science, politics and ethics | An introduction to geoengineering, covering the broad range of issues raised by the emergence of climate engineering as a response to climate change. | Clive Hamilton | 23 May 2012 |
| 179 | Creative Commons | The Ethics of Entertainment: a case study of Popular Cinema in China and India | Karanjeet de Feo-Giet's thesis focuses on contemporary Chinese and Indian entertainment films in Mandarin and Hindi and their roles in communicating ideas about identity and Asian-ness today. | Karanjeet de Feo-Giet | 10 May 2012 |
| 178 | Creative Commons | 8. Faith and Pascal's Wager | Eighth and final lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 177 | Creative Commons | 7. Arguments against the Existence of God - The Problem of Evil | Seventh lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 176 | Creative Commons | 6. Arguments for the Existence of God - Religious Experience and Miracles | Sixth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 175 | Creative Commons | 5. Arguments for the Existence of God -The Design Argument | Fifth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 174 | Creative Commons | 4. Arguments for the Existence of God - The Ontological and Cosmological Arguments | Fourth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 173 | Creative Commons | 3. The Accidental Properties of God | Third lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 172 | Creative Commons | 2. The Essential Properties of God (continued) | Second lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 171 | Creative Commons | 1. The Essential Properties of God | First lecture in the Philosophy of Religion Lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 |
| 170 | Overview of the Philosophy of Religion Lecture Series (Handout) | Introductory document for the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. | TJ Mawson | 02 May 2012 | |
| 169 | Creative Commons | Lecture: Rumour, conspiracy theory and propaganda | David Coady is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues and the editor of Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate. | David Coady | 16 Apr 2012 |
| 168 | Creative Commons | A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking | Berman (St Louis Univ.) lays out and defends a platonic explanation of non-modal and modal truths using Forms as their truthmakers. He argues that this platonic theory is parsimonious, naturalistic, and ontologically serious. | Scott Berman | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 167 | Creative Commons | Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions | Kistler (Sorbonne) introduces a distinction between powers and dispositions: A 'multi-track disposition' manifests itself in different ways Mi in different triggering circumstances Ti. | Max Kistler | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 166 | St Cross Seminar HT12: Cooperation, altruism and cheating in micro-organisms | Santorelli is a research fellow in the Zoology department, University of Oxford. He is interested in investigating the evolution of cooperative behaviors of macro and microorganisms. | Lorenzo Santorelli | 27 Feb 2012 | |
| 165 | Creative Commons | Limitations of Power | Bird (Bristol) warns against overextending the case for a powers ontology, arguing that it cannot answer typical questions outside fundamental metaphysics, for example concerning the analysis of causal statements. | Alexander Bird | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 164 | Creative Commons | Mutual Manifestations and Martin's Two Triangles | Mumford (Nottingham) argues that although superior to a stimulus-response model, Martin's mutual manifestation model must be amended to resemble less mereological composition and more causation. | Stephen Mumford | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 163 | Creative Commons | Identity, Individuality and Discernibility | Ladyman (Bristol) explains the recent debates about the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles and results about weak discernibility. He considers their implications for structuralism and the light they shed on ontological dependence. | James Ladyman | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 162 | Creative Commons | Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies | Van Inwagen (Notre Dame) argues that relational ontologies (denying properties can be constituents of particulars) are preferable to constituent ontologies (holding properties are constituents of the particulars that have them). | Peter Van Inwagen | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 161 | Creative Commons | Is causation a relation? | Jacobs (St. Louis Univ.) explores the view that between a substance and its power, on one hand, and the result of the substance manifesting its power, there is no relation at all. Thus, causal, relational truths have non-relational ontological grounds. | Jonathan Jacobs | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 160 | Foundations of Rights of Access to the Benefits of Science in International Law | Professor Aurora Plomer is Chair in Law and Bioethics at the University of Sheffield. | Aurora Plomer | 08 Feb 2012 | |
| 159 | Creative Commons | Neuroscience Can Tell Us About Morality | What can science tell us about morality? Many philosophers would say, 'nothing at all'. Facts don't imply values, they say. you need further argument to move from facts about us and about the world to conclusions about what we ought to do. | Patricia Churchland | 03 Feb 2012 |
| 158 | Creative Commons | The Secular Problem of Evil | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | John Kekes | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 157 | Creative Commons | A Religious Conception of Evil | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | Steve Clarke | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 156 | Creative Commons | Narratives of Entitlement | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | Arne Johan Vetlesen | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 155 | Creative Commons | The Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | Claudia Card | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 154 | Creative Commons | Moral Enhancement and the Duty to Eliminate Evildoing | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | Shlomit Harrosh | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 153 | Creative Commons | Can We Treat Evil? | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | Gwen Adshead | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 152 | Creative Commons | What Use Is the Concept of Evil to Us? | Paper delivered at the Moral Evil in Practical Ethics Conference, Oxford 2012. | Eve Garrard | 01 Feb 2012 |
| 151 | Creative Commons | EU ban on hESC Patents: A Threat to Science and the Rule of Law | In this talk, Professor Plomer (Chair in Law and Bioethics, University of Sheffield) argues that, from a legal perspective, the EU ban on hESC patents is seriously flawed. | Aurora Plomer | 23 Jan 2012 |
| 150 | Creative Commons | Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making | Answers to moral questions, it seems, depend on how much serotonin there is flowing through your brain. In the future might we be able to alter people's moral behaviour with concoctions of chemicals? | Molly Crocket | 04 Jan 2012 |
| 149 | 2nd St Cross Seminar MT11: Dr Margaret Yee | Whose Ethics? Six Principles and Six Guidelines determinative of a superior ethics. Note: due to a technical issue the first ten minutes of the presentation are missing. | Margaret Yee | 08 Dec 2011 | |
| 148 | Creative Commons | Responsibility | If someone caught me shoplifting, and I was later diagnosed with kleptomania, should I be held responsible? Should I be blamed? | Hanna Pickard | 01 Dec 2011 |
| 147 | Creative Commons | Selling Organs | Everyday people die in hospitals because there aren't enough organs available for transplant. In most countries of the world - though not all - it is illegal to sell organs. | Tim Lewens | 01 Nov 2011 |
| 146 | Creative Commons | Bio-Ethics Bites | Demand for health care is infinite, but money is finite. So how should we distribute resources? Whom should we help, and why? | Jonathan Wolf | 03 Oct 2011 |
| 145 | Bio-ethics Bites: Onora O'Neill on Trust | Onora O'Neill, formerly principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, has been thinking about the issue of 'trust': trust is vital in most areas of human interaction - but nowhere more so than in health and medicine. | Onora O'Neill | 01 Sep 2011 | |
| 144 | Creative Commons | Trust | Radically new techniques are opening up exciting possibilities for those working in health care - for psychiatrists, doctors, surgeons; the option to clone human beings, to give just one example. | Onora O'Neill | 01 Sep 2011 |
| 143 | 4. Arguments from Harm | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses arguments that claim citizens of rich countries are responsible for harming poor people in other countries. | James Grant | 08 Aug 2011 | |
| 142 | 3. Arguments from Distributive Justice | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the debate over whether distributive justice requires that well-off people do something about poverty in other countries. | James Grant | 08 Aug 2011 | |
| 141 | 2. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 2 | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses objections to the belief that well-off people have extremely demanding obligations to poor people in other countries. | James Grant | 08 Aug 2011 | |
| 140 | 1. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 1 | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, introduces some of the key concepts in philosophical debates about global poverty. | James Grant | 08 Aug 2011 | |
| 139 | Creative Commons | Status Quo Bias | Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence. | Nick Bostrom | 01 Aug 2011 |
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