Uehiro Oxford Institute
The Uehiro Oxford Institute’s mission is to facilitate ethical progress through research, teaching, and real-world application.
Artificial Intelligence, climate and ecological breakdown, future pandemics, global conflict, political systems under pressure. These are just some of the significant challenges that humanity faces today. By bringing a philosophical focus to collaborative initiatives UOI aims to ensure these issues are addressed in a well-informed and ethically grounded manner.
Series associated with Uehiro Oxford Institute
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181 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 3: Foundation for Frogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the final of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
180 | Creative Commons | 2014 Uehiro Lecture (3): The Question of Legal Rights for Animals | In these lectures I will raise some fundamental questions about the moral and legal standing of the other animals: the basis of our moral obligations to them, and whether it makes sense to think that animals might have legal rights. | Christine M. Korsgaard | 24 Aug 2017 |
179 | Creative Commons | 2014 Uehiro Lecture (2): The Moral Standing of Animals | In these lectures I will raise some fundamental questions about the moral and legal standing of the other animals: the basis of our moral obligations to them, and whether it makes sense to think that animals might have legal rights. | Christine M. Korsgaard | 24 Aug 2017 |
178 | Creative Commons | 2014 Uehiro Lecture (1): Animals, Human Beings, and Persons | In these lectures I will raise some fundamental questions about the moral and legal standing of the other animals: the basis of our moral obligations to them, and whether it makes sense to think that animals might have legal rights. | Christine M. Korsgaard | 24 Aug 2017 |
177 | Creative Commons | 2013 Annual Uehiro Lecture (3): Equal Opportunity | Third and final lecture from Professor Tim Scanlon in which he talks about the philosophical justifications for equalitiy of opportunity. Includes a roundtable discussion with Professors John Broome, Janet Radcliffe Richards and David Miller | Tim Scanlon, John Broome, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, David Miller | 24 Aug 2017 |
176 | Creative Commons | 2013 Annual Uehiro Lecture (2): Equal Status | In the second of three podcasts, Professor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) delivers the second 2013 Annual Uehiro Lecture in the lecture series "When Does Equality Matter?" | Tim Scanlon | 24 Aug 2017 |
175 | 2013 Annual Uehiro Lecture (1): Equal Treatment | In the first of three podcasts, Professor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) delivers the first 2013 Annual Uehiro Lecture in the lecture series "When Does Equality Matter?" | Tim Scanlon | 24 Aug 2017 | |
174 | Creative Commons | Sex in a Shifting Landscape Lecture Three: Oxford Uehiro Lectures 2012 | Third and final lecture from the 2012 Oxford Uehiro lectures in Practical Philosophy given be Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards. | Janet Radcliffe-Richards | 24 Aug 2017 |
173 | Creative Commons | Sex in a Shifting Landscape Lecture Two:Oxford Uehiro Lectures 2012 | Second lecture in the 2012 Uehiro Lecture series 'Sex in A Shifting Landscape'. | Janet Radcliffe-Richards | 24 Aug 2017 |
172 | Creative Commons | Sex in a Shifting Landscape Lecture One: Oxford Uehiro Lectures 2012 | Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards gives (OUC Distinguished Research Fellow) gives the first of three lectures on feminism for the Uehiro Practical Ethics lecture series. | Janet Radcliffe-Richards | 24 Aug 2017 |
171 | Making Good 3: Virtues, laws and consequentialism | Third of three lectures by in the 2011 Annual Uehiro Lecture Series "Making Good: The Challenge of Robustly Demanding Values". Delivered by Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. | Philip Pettit | 24 Aug 2017 | |
170 | Making Good 2: Robust Demands and the Need for Law | Second of three lectures by in the 2011 Annual Uehiro Lecture Series "Making Good: The Challenge of Robustly Demanding Values". Delivered by Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. | Philip Pettit | 24 Aug 2017 | |
169 | Making Good 1: Robust Demands and the Need for Virtue | First of three lectures in the 2011 Annual Uehiro Lecture Series "Making Good: The Challenge of Robustly Demanding Values". Delivered by Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. | Philip Pettit | 24 Aug 2017 | |
168 | 2015 Welcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics: Death and the self | This lecture investigates changing attitudes and beliefs about the persistence of the self. | Shaun Nichols | 23 Aug 2017 | |
167 | 2015 Loebel Lecture 1: Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human | The first of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure | Steven Hyman | 23 Aug 2017 | |
166 | 2015 Loebel Lecture 2: Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry | The second of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure | Steven Hyman | 23 Aug 2017 | |
165 | 2015 Loebel Lecture 3: What is the upshot? | The last of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure | Steven Hyman | 23 Aug 2017 | |
164 | 2016 Loebel Lecture 1: Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Professor Essi Viding delivers the first of two talks in the 2016 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy series | Essi Viding | 23 Aug 2017 | |
163 | 2016 Loebel Lecture 2: Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Professor Essi Viding delivers the second of two talks in the 2016 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy series | Essi Viding | 23 Aug 2017 | |
162 | Creative Commons | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Eamon McCrory | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Eamon McCrory | 23 Aug 2017 |
161 | Creative Commons | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Charlotte Cecil | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Charlotte Cecil | 23 Aug 2017 |
160 | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Neil Levy | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Neil Levy | 23 Aug 2017 | |
159 | Creative Commons | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Richard Holton | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Richard Holton | 23 Aug 2017 |
158 | Creative Commons | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Matthew Parrott | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Matthew Parrott | 23 Aug 2017 |
157 | Creative Commons | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Nikolaus Steinbeis | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Nikolaus Steinbeis | 23 Aug 2017 |
156 | Creative Commons | 2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Peter Dayan | To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions | Peter Dayan | 23 Aug 2017 |
155 | Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement | In this double seminar, Erasmus visitors Laurentiu Staicu and Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua discuss the rise of biomedical technology and some of the legal issues of moral bioenhancement | Laurentiu Staicu, Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua | 05 Jul 2017 | |
154 | Aiming for Moral Mediocrity | In this talk, Eric Schwitzgebel considers whether it's acceptable to aim for peer-relative mediocrity. | Eric Schwitzgebel | 29 Jun 2017 | |
153 | Creative Commons | Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science | In this episode, Brian Earp discusses the 'Reproducibility Project' and questions whether psychology is in crisis or not. | Brian Earp | 27 Jun 2017 |
152 | Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition | In this talk, Professor John Paris asks "What is the historical meaning of "ordinary means" to sustain human life? And what has been the understanding for over 500 years of Catholic moral analysis of the obligation to sustain life?" | Fr. John Paris | 06 Jun 2017 | |
151 | Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes | Professor Richman's talk combines differing theories of models of autism and moral responsibility, and explores the practical implications arising from these ideas. | Kenneth Richman | 08 Mar 2017 | |
150 | The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning) | In this public lecture, Dr William Casebeer discusses neuroscience, human agency and free will. | William Casebeer | 23 Feb 2017 | |
149 | Creative Commons | Humanity’s Collective Ownership of the Earth and Immigration | Mathias Risse discusses his recent JPE article 'Humanity’s Collective Ownership of the Earth and Immigration', with David Edmonds. | Mathias Risse, David Edmonds | 07 Feb 2017 |
148 | Implicit Bias and Racism | Paper presented by Neil Levy at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Neil Levy | 23 Nov 2016 | |
147 | The Contribution of Neuroethics for Responsible Management Education | Paper presented by José Félix Lozano Aguilar at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | José Félix Lozano Aguilar | 23 Nov 2016 | |
146 | Neurointerventions to Prevent Crime and the Problem of Unjustified Incarceration | Paper presented by Katrien Devolder at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Katrien Devolder | 23 Nov 2016 | |
145 | The New Problem of Personal Force in Morality | Paper presented by Emilian Mihailov at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Emilian Mihailov | 23 Nov 2016 | |
144 | Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene's Dual Process Theory | Paper presented by Javier Gracia and Andrés Richard at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Javier Gracia, Andrés Richard | 23 Nov 2016 | |
143 | Moral Reasoning is Not Like a Dog's Tail: A Critical Analysis of Social Intuitionism's Two Illusions of Moral Deliberation | Paper presented Pedro Jesús Pérez Zafrilla the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Pedro Jesús Pérez Zafrilla | 23 Nov 2016 | |
142 | Homo reciprocans from Neuroscience: a limited reciprocity. A criticism from neuroethics | Paper presented by Elsa González Esteban at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Elsa González Esteban | 23 Nov 2016 | |
141 | No pain, no praise: motivational enhancement and the meaning of life | Paper presented by Julian Savulescu at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. | Julian Savulescu | 23 Nov 2016 | |
140 | Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016 | Human Rights, Global Ethics and the Ordinary Virtues | Michael Ignatieff | 23 Nov 2016 | |
139 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 3: Foundation for Frogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the final of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 23 Nov 2016 | |
138 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 2: Deontology for Dogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the second of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 23 Nov 2016 | |
137 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 1: Consequentialism for Cows | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the first of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 23 Nov 2016 | |
136 | What if Kant were a designer? | Constantin Vică presents work in the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop | Constantin Vică | 22 Nov 2016 | |
135 | Designing for conviviality | Cristina Voinea presents work at the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop. | Cristina Voinea | 22 Nov 2016 | |
134 | Parfitian Survival and Punishing Crimes from the Distant Past | Tom Douglas' presentation at the MT16 Oxford- Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop | Tom Douglas | 22 Nov 2016 | |
133 | Creative Commons | Offsetting Class Privilege | Holly Lawford-Smith discusses her Journal of Practical Ethics article, Offsetting Class Privilege | Holly Lawford-Smith, David Edmonds | 22 Jul 2016 |
132 | St Cross Seminar: The role of therapeutic optimism in recruitment to a clinical trial: an empirical study | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Nina Hallowell discusses the importance of therapeutic optimism in clinical research. | Nina Hallowell | 16 May 2016 | |
131 | St Cross Seminar: Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle | In this episode, Professor Neil Levy assesses objections to cognitive enhancement and argues that the means don't matter from a moral perspective: what matters is how the intervention affects cognition. | Neil Levy | 17 Mar 2016 | |
130 | Creative Commons | Leverhulme Lecture 2: Moral Responsibility and Implicit Bias | The second of the two 2016 Leverhulme Lectures by Professor Neil Levy on the topic of implicit bias | Neil Levy | 23 Feb 2016 |
129 | Creative Commons | Leverhulme Lecture 1: The Nature and the Significance of Implicit Bias | The first of the two 2016 Leverhulme Lectures by Professor Neil Levy on the topic of implicit bias | Neil Levy | 23 Feb 2016 |
128 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents | The first of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 02 Feb 2016 | |
127 | St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes? | In this seminar we explore why human interventions such as euthanasia or use of biotechnologies are controversial. | Virginie Tournay | 01 Feb 2016 | |
126 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations | The last of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 01 Feb 2016 | |
125 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Reasons to Worry | The second of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 01 Feb 2016 | |
124 | Conscientious Objection in Healthcare Conference: Roundtable discussion | Panel discussion at a conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Katrien Devolder, Richard Sorabji, Jeff McMahan, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong | 09 Dec 2015 | |
123 | Kant, conscience, and professional roles | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Jeanette Kennett | 09 Dec 2015 | |
122 | Medicine and morally messy relationships | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Kimberley Brownlee | 09 Dec 2015 | |
121 | Reasons, moral integrity, and conscientious objection | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Mark Wicclair | 09 Dec 2015 | |
120 | Two concepts of conscience and their implications for conscience-based refusal | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Steve Clarke | 07 Dec 2015 | |
119 | Refusing to treat sexual dysfunction in sex offenders | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Tom Douglas | 07 Dec 2015 | |
118 | Objection to conscience. On good and bad objections in medicine | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Alberto Giubilini | 07 Dec 2015 | |
117 | My conscience may be my guide, but you may not have to honour it | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Hugh LaFollette | 07 Dec 2015 | |
116 | Conscientious objection and complicity in wrongdoing | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Francesca Minerva | 07 Dec 2015 | |
115 | The proper place of conscience and values | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Julian Savulescu | 07 Dec 2015 | |
114 | Conscientious objection and 'effective referral' | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Roger Trigg | 07 Dec 2015 | |
113 | Conscientious non-objection and medical dissensus in intensive care | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Dominic Wilkinson | 07 Dec 2015 | |
112 | We Want Kids, Too: Should Doctors be Allowed to Refuse to Help Gay Couples have Children? | A conference on conscientious objection in medicine and the role of conscience in healthcare practitioners’ decision making, Oxford 2015. | Walter Sinnott Armstrong, Aaron Ancell | 07 Dec 2015 | |
111 | St Cross Seminar: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation | Dr Jonathan Pugh discusses the morally permissibility of non-consensual medical interventions. | Jonathan Pugh | 18 Nov 2015 | |
110 | Creative Commons | Ethical and Social Issues in Shared Virtual Environments Revisited | Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies. | Ralph Schroeder | 16 Nov 2015 |
109 | Creative Commons | The Soul of the Machine: The multi-layered structure of a synthetic self | Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies | Paul Verschure | 16 Nov 2015 |
108 | Creative Commons | The Smart Mandate: A Brief History of Ubiquitous Computing and Responsive Environments | Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies. | Orit Halpern | 16 Nov 2015 |
107 | Creative Commons | Virtually anything goes: what, if any, are the ethical limits on behaviour in virtual worlds? | Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies. | Blay Whitby | 16 Nov 2015 |
106 | Creative Commons | Moral Conformity | Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Ethics at Duke University. | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong | 14 Jul 2015 |
105 | Creative Commons | Happiness, Unhappiness, and Suffering | Hawkins is Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Trent Scholar in Bioethics at Duke University. | Jennifer Hawkins, Jeff McMahan | 14 Jul 2015 |
104 | Creative Commons | Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Moral Progress | Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. | Allen Buchanan | 14 Jul 2015 |
103 | Creative Commons | Can you choose to be gay? | Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation. | Brian Earp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 14 Jul 2015 |
102 | St Cross Seminar: The 'New' Guestworker? Rethinking the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programme | This talk probes into the ethical landscape of contemporary TLMPs in liberal democratic states, and examines issues such as migrants' rights. | Mimi Zou | 10 Jun 2015 | |
101 | St Cross Seminar: The moral insignificance of self-consciousness | In this talk, Dr Josh Shepherd examines the claim that self-consciousness is highly morally significant. | Joshua Shepherd | 10 Jun 2015 | |
100 | Brain Science and the Military | In this talk I explain the nature of national security interest in the burgeoning field of neuroscience and its implications for military and counter-intelligence operations. | Jonathan Moreno | 17 Apr 2015 | |
99 | Creative Commons | 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (3): Marshmallows and Moderation | Is self-control a character trait or should we look to external props for self-control? | Neil Levy | 10 Mar 2015 |
98 | Creative Commons | 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control | This lecture outlines some of the main perspectives on self-control and its loss stemming from recent work in psychology. | Neil Levy | 09 Mar 2015 |
97 | Creative Commons | 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management | Self-control problems typically arise from conflicts between smaller sooner and larger later rewards. | Neil Levy | 04 Mar 2015 |
96 | Creative Commons | St Cross Seminar: On Swearing | What, if anything, is wrong with swearing? And, what exactly are we doing when we try to swear inoffensively? | Rebecca Roache | 23 Feb 2015 |
95 | Creative Commons | St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life | Dr Richard Hain, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, explores the difficulties in rationally explaining the value of an infant’s life. | Richard Hain | 04 Feb 2015 |
94 | St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory | This talk explores the central argument in Boylan's recent book, 'Natural Human Rights: A Theory' | Michael Boylan | 03 Dec 2014 | |
93 | Bioethics and the Burden of Proof | In this paper we critique a kind of argument very common in bioethical debates, in which a proponent provides a prima facie case for a particular conclusion, then claims that the burden of proof is on those that object to that conclusion. | Michael Selgelid | 14 Nov 2014 | |
92 | Implicit Moral Attitudes | Research shows that implicit moral attitudes affect our thinking and behavior. This talk reports new psychological and neuroscientific research and explores potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for some philosophical theories. | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong | 14 Nov 2014 | |
91 | The ethics of sexuality | Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad. | Janet Radcliffe Richards, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 04 Nov 2014 | |
90 | Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos? | Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos. | Tom Douglas, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 28 Oct 2014 | |
89 | Is there such a thing as a just war? | Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war? | Jeff McMahan, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 21 Oct 2014 | |
88 | The Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders: The Link Between the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders and Their Causal Complexity | The second of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler | Kenneth S Kendler | 21 Oct 2014 | |
87 | The Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders: Multiple Levels, Interactions and Causal Loops | The first of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler | Kenneth S Kendler | 16 Oct 2014 | |
86 | The rights and wrongs of abortion | Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother. | Rebecca Roache, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 14 Oct 2014 | |
85 | Creative Commons | Choosing the sex of your child | Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each. | Julian Savulescu, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 06 Oct 2014 |
84 | Creative Commons | Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility | Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions? | Neil Levy, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 29 Sep 2014 |
83 | Creative Commons | What is virtue ethics? | In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'. | Roger Crisp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 22 Sep 2014 |
82 | Creative Commons | Should euthanasia be legal? | Dr Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, explores the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia and asks whether it should be made legal. | Dominic Wilkinson, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 22 Jul 2014 |
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