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A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Making Up Your Mind

Part 7 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". This final episode is a time to take stock and bring together all the strands we've considered.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Status Quo Bias

Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul

Steve Clarke, James Martin Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Ethics, Oxford Martin School, Oxford gives a talk for the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Life and Death

If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself?
Uehiro Oxford Institute

2nd St Cross Special Ethics Seminar TT11: Museum Ethics

Museum Ethics.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus

Part 6 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". A reflection on Mill's account of morality, and the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Morality and Law in War

Dr Seth Lazar (Research Associate, ELAC, Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 7th June 2011.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Humanitarianism and History: Rethinking the Neutrality Debate

Tom Smith (QEH, Oxford), gives a talk for the ELAC/Oxford Humanitarian Group seminar series on 6th June 2011. Introduced by Urvashi Aneja.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Intervention in Libya and Implications for European and Transatlantic Defence Cooperation

Camille Grand (Director Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (FRS, Paris) gives a talk for the ELAC/OHG (Oxford Humanitarian Group) on 31st May 2011.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Intervening to Protect Civilians: Debating the NATO-led mission in Libya

Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Dr Cheyney Ryan and Dapo Akande (ELAC) debate the recent NATO led mission in Libya.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law

Part 5 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Kant's account of morality, including the categorical imperative.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation

Part 4 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Hume's account of morality and his rejection of reason as the source of morality.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Moral Status

A stone on the beach, we assume, has no moral status. We can kick or hammer the stone, and we have done the stone no harm. Typical adult human beings do have moral status. We shouldn't, without a very good reason, kick a man or woman.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Designer Babies

The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character

Part 3 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we will reflect on Aristotle's account of morality and the centrality of the virtues in this account.
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences

Designing Biotechnology

James King, Lead Designer, Science Practice Ltd. gives a talk on Synthetic Biology - a new approach to genetics which applies engineering principles to biology in the hope of creating medicines, fuels, foods and other useful products.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Freedom, knowledge and society: the preconditions of ethical reasoning

Part 2 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we examine the preconditions of ethical reasoning and make a comparison between the law of the land and the moral law.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Rules, truths and theories: an introduction to ethical reasoning

Part 1 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we examine moral dilemmas, moral truth and moral knowledge, freewill and determinism.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement: Premises of a Pluralist International Legal Order

Professor Brad Roth, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Wayne State, Detroit, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 17th May 2011. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

Prioritarianism, Levelling Down and Welfare Diffusion

Lecture and discussion from Professor Ingmar Persson (Gothenburg University), the discussant is Derek Parfit (Oxford).

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