Podcast of 'Stereotypes: are they Always Wrong? by Frederick Schauer
The second lecture in the 2008 Oxford- Harvard Applied Ethics lecture series, presented by Frederick Schauer (Harvard.) Abstract: It is common to criticize the process of stereotyping (or profiling),...
View ArticleReasoning in Law and How it Differs from Reasoning, Frederick Schauer
The third lecture by Professor Frederick Schauer (Harvard) in the Oxford- Harvard Applied Ethics lecture series 2008. Abstract: Centuries ago Lord Coke talked about the "artificial reason" of the law,...
View ArticleKidney Sales and Moral Arguments, Janet Radcliffe Richards
The arguments used to justify the conclusion that kidney selling should be prohibited are remarkable. What lies at the root of these emotions, and what relevance should they have in practical decision...
View ArticleWe Should Accept Performance Enhancing Drugs in Competitive Sports: Debate
This debate was organised by Intelligence Squared US to debate drugs in sport. Julian Savulescu, Director of the Uehiro Centre was on the panel in favour of the motion. Opponents included Dick Pound,...
View ArticleStronger, Smarter, Nicer Humans
Julian Savulescu's 'Sydney Ideas Lecture' on Human Enhancement was originally broadcast on ABC Radio National in Australia, August 19 2007.
View ArticleOxford- Harvard Video Link: 'Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human...
Delegates from Oxford and Manchester linked through video with Michael Sandel's Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature class to discuss human enhancement in the light of Michael Sandel's...
View ArticlePower Relations in the Fair Trade Coffee Global Value Chain
This presentation uses methodological insights from Global Value Chain theory to assess how Fair Trade affects opportunities for producer empowerment.
View ArticleThe Ethics of Undertaking Research in Other Countries
This paper considers when it is ethical for scientists to do research abroad that is banned at home. The handout, Skene's Barometer, is available at...
View ArticleUnfinished Business: Money, Ethics, and a Better Transplant System
Transplant policy in the U.S relies on volunteers. This approach cannot meet increasing demand for organs. This lecture explores the ethics of alternative systems practically and philosophically.
View ArticleCrown Lecture in Ethics 2008: The Moral Imperative to Enhance Human Beings
Video. Should we use science and medical technology not just to prevent or treat disease, but to intervene at the most basic biological levels to improve biology and enhance people's lives? This...
View ArticleJulian Savulescu Interview on ABC's 'Enough Rope'
Andrew Denton interviews Julian Savulescu on the Australian chatshow 'Enough Rope'
View ArticleSpecial Seminar: Selgelid and Oakley
Michael Selgelid, Ethics, Germs, and Globalisation and Justin Oakley, Virtue ethics, Genetic parenthood, and the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive technologies
View ArticleHuman Enhancement and Christianity: A Case of Friendly Fire?
Prof Ronald Cole-Turner argues the difference between religious and technological visions of human enhancement is significant but that the two are not incompatible.
View ArticleSt Cross Seminar: Cognitive Bias and the Precautionary Principle
Dr Steve Clarke a researcher on the AHRC Project 'Cognitive Science and Religious Conflict' discusses Cass Sunstein's attack on the precautionary principle.
View ArticleLeverhulme Lecture: What Conservatism and Liberalism Have to Say About the...
Professor Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the Uehiro Centre discusses political responses to human enhancement.
View ArticleCognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement
Prof Jeff McMahan,Rutgers University explores why it is important for our understanding of problems in bioethics to determine the moral status of human beings whose cognitive capacities and potential...
View ArticleNeuroscience in the Courtroom
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Leverhulme Visiting Professor. Please note there is some interference on this recording.
View ArticleReciprocal Legitimation: How International Institutions Contribute to the...
Professor Allen Buchanan. Leverhulme Lecture 4.
View ArticleJanet Radcliffe Richards presents BBC Radio 4's 'Analysis' on Thought...
In the past few years, a fascinating range of experiments has begun to shed light on the moral choices humans make. Philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards asks whether the results can tell us not just...
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