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HT13 Seminar Series: Ethics and 21st Century Challenges

2013-01-07 11:46:46

Can we develop a common set of values to protect resources? Improve food yields without breaking ethical codes? Is there space for individual moral and legal responsibility on a technologically complex battlefield?

How The Light Gets In 2012: Enhancing Morality Video

2012-05-23 11:55:53

'Enhancing Morality' video from 'How The Light Gets In 2012' now available.

Bennett Foddy interview on Radical Life Extension

2012-05-23 10:28:15

Bennett Foddy was recently interviewed for The Atlantic magazine for an article 'Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We're Doing it Wrong'

Julian Savulescu on the ethical controls in synthetic biology

2012-04-25 15:58:58

In an article published in the Times Higher Ed, Julian Savulescu warns of the need to ethically control synthetic biology

Ethics of Brain Stimulation

2012-01-26 10:21:46

Recent research in Oxford and elsewhere has shown stimulating the brain with an electrical current boosts performance on cognitive tasks, such as language and maths, memory, problem solving, etc

Julian Savulescu features in iPad magazine app

2012-01-26 10:49:41

Brand Australia are launching a new iPad magazine 'Australia Unlimited' today at the Australian High Commission in London

Lent Lecture: Mark Sheehan

2012-01-23 14:37:05

Mark Sheehan is to deliver a lecture 'Rare and exceptional: Dealing with difficult healthcare resource allocation decisions' at KCL.

BBC Radio 4: Remaking the Self. The growth of cosmetic surgery

2012-01-16 15:58:46

Julian Savulescu recently appeared on BBC Radio 4 consumer programme 'You&Yours' discussing the 'normalisation of cosmetic surgery'

BBC Radio 4: Ethics of creating a deadly virus

2012-01-16 15:28:35

Julian Savulescu to appear on 'File on 4' to discuss ethics of creating a deadly virus and censorship of research data

BBC Radio: performance enhancing drugs in sport

2011-12-08 10:07:04

Julian Savulescu recently appeared on BBC's Start the Week on 12 December discussing the 'spirit of the game' and perfomance enhancing drugs.

Oxford gets Top Ranking in Leiter's 'Philosophical Gourmet' Report

2011-12-07 15:19:56

Leiter's bi-annual survey is widely considered the most influential and important in the field.

Expert reaction to latest developments in detection of PVS

2011-11-14 15:29:12

Read Professor Savulescu's full comment on a paper on bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state, recently published in The Lancet.

Julian Savulescu on Organ Donation

2011-10-24 12:20:31

Julian Savulescu discusses organ donation on Australian television programme

UPDATED: Adelaide Festival of Ideas

2011-10-19 11:45:17

Listen to Julian Savulescu in recent panel discussions on life-extension and 'the case for perfection'

Interview with Mark Sheehan: Collaboration and positive change

2011-10-10 11:29:29

In this interview Sheehan outlines some of the collaborative projects in which he has been involved since joining the Oxford Martin School.

Nick Shea interview with The Science Network

2011-09-12 16:14:19

Watch or listen to The Science Network's interview with Nick Shea at CogSci2011

High Impact Publications

2011-09-07 11:29:18

See list of recent most cited/downloaded articles by Julian Savulescu and Bennett Foddy

The Philosopher's Arms

2011-09-08 12:08:27

New radio series on thought experiments, 'The Philosopher's Arms', with David Edmonds and Matthew Sweet. Final episode now available...

House of Lords 'Behaviour Change' Inquiry

2011-07-27 09:31:29

A recent report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee 'Behaviour Change' cites written evidence by Drs Bennett Foddy and Eric Mandelbaum.

IQ2: Ideas to change the world

2011-06-13 11:15:10

Video now available: Dr Bennett Foddy presents the case for biological enhancement.

Is Immunisation Child Protection?

2011-06-09 15:50:48

Latest publication by Julian Savulescu in this week's 'The Lancet Series: The New Decade of Vaccines'.

Bio-Ethics Bites

2011-06-01 14:15:52

We are pleased to announce the release of the first two 'Bio-Ethics Bites' podcasts.

JM Seminar: Week 8 TT11

2010-10-13 16:59:55

Wednesday, 22 June, 15:00 - 16:30, Oxford Martin School
Dr Steve Clarke (Institute for Science and Ethics; Science and Religious Conflict Programme, University of Oxford)
The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul

Savulescu interview on moral enhancement

2011-06-01 10:18:40

Professor Savulescu was recently interviewed by Nigel Warburton (Philosophy Bites) on the topic of moral enhancement.

Anders Sandberg: Progress in Mitigating Asteroid Impact Risks

2011-05-16 10:04:25

Anders Sandberg recently gave the keynote address at the IAA Planetary Defense Conference.

Tom Douglas: guest blogger for the Wellcome Trust

2011-05-16 16:07:22

Tom Douglas asks if it could ever be justifiable to use biomedical technologies to improve our morality

Anders Sandberg interview on Whole Brain Emulation

2011-05-16 10:10:08

Listen to Sandberg's recent interview for Spark (Canadian radio show).

Latest Open Access Publication: Neil Levy

2011-04-28 16:25:16

Levy's recent paper 'Searle's Wager', published in AI and Society, is now freely available from Springer's open access service.

Vacancy: Administrator & Executive PA to Director

2011-04-04 15:25:04

A full-time administrative position is available for an Administrator of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics (OCN) and Executive PA to its Director.

Video: Relaxing the Ban on Doping

2011-04-06 10:34:50

Video now available of Julian Savulescu's keynote speech at 'Human enhancement - Biotechnology in Sports' Conference in Oslo on 16 March 2011.

Special Seminar on Synthetic Biology

2011-03-14 11:41:05

Date and time: Wednesday 11 May 2011, 3 - 4.30pm
Venue: Seminar Rooms, Oxford Martin School, Broad Street, Oxford
Speaker: James King (Lead Designer, Science Practice Ltd.)
Title: Designing Biotechnology

Latest publication: new book to be launched on 18 March, 2011

2011-03-17 15:29:46

Edited by Julian Savulescu (Director of the Uehiro Centre) and Guy Kahane (Deputy Director), together with Ruud ter Meulen, (University of Bristol), "Enhancing Human Capacities" is the output of the now-completed ENHANCE project.

Hanna Pickard on BBC 4's 'The Moral Maze' programme

2011-03-16 16:16:55

Dr Hanna Pickard participated in the debate 'The medicalisation of misbehaviour' on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 16 March 2011.

Book Review: Human Enhancement

2011-03-07 14:42:03

Human Enhancement' latest review by Dean Rickles (University of Sydney) in University of Victoria's 'Philosophy in Review' Vol 31 (1) 2011

New book: Infectious Disease Ethics

2011-02-24 11:07:49

Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing - and increasingly being recognised as one of the most important - topics in bioethics and public health ethics.

Media: Savulescu and Levy on 'Designer Babies'

2011-02-14 12:04:00

Julian Savulescu and Neil Levy were recently interviewed by Herald Sun (Australian newspaper) for a piece on genetic screening of embryos to create a smarter society of "designer babies" with higher IQs. UPDATE: listen live to a follow-up radio interview on Melbourne Talk Radio on Monday 14 February.

Julian Savulescu responds to Guardian's 'The Question'

2011-02-09 11:01:20

The Guardian has published a piece written by Julian Savulescu entitled 'The HFEA has restricted liberty without good cause'

BBC interview on ethics of life-extending technologies

2011-01-27 15:31:41

Dr Bennett Foddy appears on BBC's GMT, discussing the ethics of emerging life-extension technologies.

Publication of Annual Uehiro Lecture Series: Allen E Buchanan's 'Beyond Humanity'

2011-01-26 14:18:45

The latest publication in the Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics is now available

Anders Sandberg at Humanity+

2011-01-13 14:07:55

Anders Sandberg is speaking at this year's Humanity+ UK 2011 conference, being held at London's Conway Hall on Saturday 29th January.