| The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections |
A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, recorded at St Cross College, Oxford in February 2024. |
Marcel van Ackeren |
28 March, 2024 |
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| Morality and Personality |
Professor Predrag uses a comparison of money and morality to explore the mutual relationship between morality and personality. |
Predrag Cicovacki |
9 November, 2023 |
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| Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency |
Professor Mark Coeckelbergh considers whether AI poses a risk for democracy n this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar |
Mark Coeckelbergh |
13 March, 2023 |
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| Shallow Cognizing for Self-Control over Emotion & Desire |
In the first St Cross Special Ethics Seminar of 2023, Dr Larry Lengbeyer explores 'shallow cognizing' as a form of self-control |
Lawrence Lengbeyer |
2 February, 2023 |
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| The Moral Machine Experiment |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Edmond Awad discusses his project, the Moral Machine, an internet-based game exploring the ethical dilemmas faced by driverless cars. |
Edmond Awad |
9 November, 2022 |
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| Hope in Healthcare |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Stephen Clarke the role of hope in patients undergoing major healthcare procedures, and how it relates to decision-making in situations of risk and uncertainty. |
Stephen Clarke |
20 June, 2022 |
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| Against Legalizing Female 'Circumcision' of Minors |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Brian Earp argues that all medically unnecessary genital cutting of non-consenting persons should be opposed on moral and legal grounds. |
Brian D. Earp |
16 May, 2022 |
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| Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Sarah Chan outlines some risks arising from the deliberate infection of human participants to infectious agents for research purposes |
Sarah Chan |
24 November, 2021 |
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| Do We Need Mental Privacy? The Ethics of Mind Reading Reloaded |
Marcello Ienca discusses moral and legal issues surrounding the decoding – ‘mind reading’ - of brain activity |
Marcello Ienca |
22 November, 2021 |
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| Waiver or understanding? A dilemma for autonomists about informed consent |
Professor Gopal Sreenivasan delivers a New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on the topic of Informed Consent. |
Gopal Sreenivasan |
8 June, 2021 |
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| Fighting diseases of poverty through research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities |
A New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, with Professor Maureen Kelley. |
Maureen Kelley |
24 May, 2021 |
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| Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research |
A New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Dr David M Lyreskog. |
David M Lyreskog |
1 March, 2021 |
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| The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived |
Professor Morten L. Kringlebach explains how recent advances in neuroimaging offer an insight into hedonia and eudaimonia, and draws out implications for neuropsychiatric disorders. |
Morten L. Kringelbach |
27 January, 2021 |
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| Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity |
MT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Assoc. Professor Jennifer Hawkins |
Jennifer Hawkins |
23 November, 2020 |
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| Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare |
Alberto Giubilini and David Jones trade views and argue each other's position on conscientious objection in healthcare |
Alberto Giubilini, David Jones |
14 October, 2020 |
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| Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury |
Recording of the New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on surrogate decision-making after severe brain injury. |
Mackenzie Graham, Doug McConnell |
19 June, 2020 |
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| Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Arthur Schafer outlines the current contours of the Canadian euthanasia debate. |
Arthur Schafer |
11 May, 2020 |
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| Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective |
In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility. |
Neil Armstrong |
17 February, 2020 |
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| Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution? |
In this talk, Prof. Peter Sandøe argues that, from an ethical viewpoint, gene editing is the best solution to produce hornless cattle. There are, however, regulatory hurdles. |
Peter Sandøe |
2 December, 2019 |
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| Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research |
Respecting patients' autonomy is increasingly important in the digital age, yet researchers have raised concerns over the barriers of access to medical data useful for data-driven medical research. |
Sebastian Porsdam Mann |
13 November, 2019 |
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| Genetic Selection and Enhancement |
Professor Julian Savulescu and Dr Katrien Devolder discuss the use of genetic testing to select which children to bring into the world. |
Julian Savulescu, Katrien Devolder |
4 November, 2019 |
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| From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context |
In November 2018, a Chinese scientist announced the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies and sparked outrage across the world. Professor Nie considers how China's complex socio-ethical approach paved the way for this controversial experiment. |
Jing-Bao Nie |
7 October, 2019 |
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| Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace |
Professor Seumas Miller defines fake news, hate speech and propaganda, discusses the relationship between social media and political propaganda. |
Seumas Miller |
20 June, 2019 |
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| One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics |
In this special lecture, Professor Mitt Regan discusses the latest research in moral perception and judgment, and the potential implications of this research for ethics education in general and military ethics training in particular. |
Mitt Regan |
19 June, 2019 |
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| Religion, War and Terrorism |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Tony Coady argues that religion does not have an inherent tendency towards violence, including particularly war and terrorism. |
Professor Tony Coady |
1 May, 2019 |
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| The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel |
Professor Seumas Miller sets out how the use of lethal and coercive forces may erode moral character and cause moral injury. |
Seumas Miller |
26 March, 2019 |
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| Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy? |
Is 'gig work' exploitative and injust? In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Daniel Halliday examines the common concerns from an ethical perspective. |
Daniel Halliday |
4 March, 2019 |
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| The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09 |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. |
Simukai Chigudu |
12 February, 2019 |
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| Political Bioethics |
How should members of a liberal democratic political community, open to value pluralism, decide bioethical issues that generate deep disagreement? |
Benjamin Gregg |
6 November, 2018 |
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| Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges |
Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges. |
Steven J Hoffman |
23 October, 2018 |
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| Fake News and the Politics of Truth |
Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust. |
Michael Lynch |
8 October, 2018 |
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| Minds Without Spines: Toward a More Comprehensive Animal Ethics |
In this OUC-WEH Joint Seminar, Irina Mikhalevich argues that the moral status of invertebrate animals is often overlooked, and sets out why animal ethics should be more inclusive and comprehensive. |
Irina Mikhalevich |
19 June, 2018 |
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| Rethinking 'Disease': A Fresh Diagnosis and a New Philosophical Treatment |
In this OUC-WEH Joint Seminar, Russell Powell explores the concept of 'disease' |
Russell Powell |
19 June, 2018 |
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| Cost-benefit analysis |
In this special lecture, Professor Matt Adler argues that social welfare function is a better methodology than cost-benefit analysis. |
Professor Matthew Adler |
11 June, 2018 |
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| Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well |
An inter-disciplinary collaboration on music, mortality and ethics. |
Dominic Wilkinson |
8 June, 2018 |
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| The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades |
Digitisation has entered the mobility arena. The car has evolved from a mechanical device into a “data producing embedded software platform”, and the internet is quickly linking the supply and demand to effectively fulfil our transport needs. |
Carlo van de Weijer |
21 May, 2018 |
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| Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Tom Buller reflects on the causal relationship between movement goals and bodily awareness and challenges the idea that BMI-enabled movement and intentional bodily movement are equal actions. |
Tom Buller |
19 February, 2018 |
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| Collective inaction and group-based ignorance |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Anne Schwenkebecher discusses morally wrongful collective inaction and the problem of group-based ignorance. |
Anne Schwekenbecher |
6 February, 2018 |
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| Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life |
OUC-Ethox Seminar. Steve Clarke discusses Ronald Dworkin's account of sacred values in his work 'Life's Dominion' and furthers the argument that the assertion 'life is sacred' is tenable by both liberals and conservatives. |
Steve Clarke |
13 November, 2017 |
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| On Moral Experts |
A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar. Professor John-Stewart Gordon focusses on the question of whether moral experts must follow their own expert advice in order to remain experts. |
John-Stewart Gordon |
13 November, 2017 |
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| 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 |
5 July, 2017 |
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| Aiming for Moral Mediocrity |
In this talk, Eric Schwitzgebel considers whether it's acceptable to aim for peer-relative mediocrity. |
Eric Schwitzgebel |
29 June, 2017 |
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| 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 June, 2017 |
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| 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 |
6 June, 2017 |
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| 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 |
8 March, 2017 |
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| 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 February, 2017 |
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| Implicit Bias and Racism |
Paper presented by Neil Levy at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. |
Neil Levy |
23 November, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2016 |
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| The New Problem of Personal Force in Morality |
Paper presented by Emilian Mihailov at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. |
Emilian Mihailov |
23 November, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2016 |
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| Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016 |
Human Rights, Global Ethics and the Ordinary Virtues |
Michael Ignatieff |
23 November, 2016 |
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| What if Kant were a designer? |
Constantin Vică presents work in the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop |
Constantin Vică |
22 November, 2016 |
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| Designing for conviviality |
Cristina Voinea presents work at the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop. |
Cristina Voinea |
22 November, 2016 |
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| Parfitian Survival and Punishing Crimes from the Distant Past |
Tom Douglas' presentation at the MT16 Oxford- Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop |
Tom Douglas |
22 November, 2016 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 March, 2016 |
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| 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 February, 2016 |
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| 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 February, 2016 |
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| 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 |
1 February, 2016 |
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| 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 November, 2015 |
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| Moral Conformity |
Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Ethics at Duke University. |
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
14 July, 2015 |
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| 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 June, 2015 |
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| 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 June, 2015 |
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| 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 April, 2015 |
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| 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 March, 2015 |
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| 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 |
9 March, 2015 |
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| 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 |
4 March, 2015 |
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| 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 February, 2015 |
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| 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 |
4 February, 2015 |
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| 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 |
3 December, 2014 |
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| 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 November, 2014 |
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| 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 November, 2014 |
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| Special Seminar: The enhancement debate: trusting emotion or trusting reason - a false dichotomy? |
In this talk, Professor Tony Coady examines the contrast between reason and emotion and argues that much of the separation of reason and emotion that underpins the debate is misguided. |
Tony Coady |
16 June, 2014 |
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| St Cross Seminar: What counts as a placebo is relative to a target disorder and therapeutic theory: defending a modified version of Grünbaum’s scheme |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Jeremy Howick defends Grünbaum’s work on placebos. He outlines a need to re-examine policies on ethics of placebos, and revise our estimations of their effects in both clinical practice and trials. |
Jeremy Howick |
16 June, 2014 |
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| St Cross Seminar: "I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen": Consenting without Understanding |
Tom Walker discusses autonomy and informed consent to medical treatment |
Tom Walker |
19 May, 2014 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral? |
If networking is considered to be either cultivating non-merit-based favouritism or demonstrating one’s merit in advance of formal selection processes, then I argue that it is an attempt to gain illegitimate advantage over competitors and is thus immoral. |
Ned Dobos |
5 December, 2013 |
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| St Cross Seminar: Genetic parenthood, assisted reproduction, and the values of parental love |
I argue that the value of love in friendship illuminates issues about parental love and examine whether allowing same-sex couples access to adoption has any bearing on the moral status of prohibitions on same-sex couples using assisted reproduction. |
Justin Oakley |
4 December, 2013 |
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| 2013 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics: The Irresponsible Self: Self bias changes the way we see the world |
Humans show a bias to favour information related to themselves over information related to other people. How does this effect arise? Are self biases a stable trait of the individual? Do these biases change fundamental perceptual processes? |
Glyn Humphries |
4 December, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: Do antidepressants work and if so how? |
Antidepressants are commonplace yet there is much debate about their clinical efficacy. Are they merely placebos or do they have a clinical effect on the way our brains work? In this presentation, Professor Cowen investigates the evidence. |
Phil Cowen |
4 December, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: Cyborg justice: human enhancement and punishment |
We explore some possible interactions between enhancement technology and punishment, reflect on ethical issues that arise as a result, and consider what our justice system must do in order to ensure that it keeps pace with developments in technology. |
Rebecca Roache, Anders Sandberg, Hannah Maslen |
19 November, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: The struggle between liberties and authorities in the information age |
The talk discusses the balance between cyber security measures and individual rights - any fair and reasonable society should implement the former successfully while respecting and furthering the latter. |
Mariarosaria Taddeo |
13 November, 2013 |
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| St Cross Seminar: Neither God nor Nature. Could the doping sinner be an exemplar of human(ist) dignity? |
If doping were done in a healthy and fair way, would it be OK? If so, all wrongs would lie in doping abuses involving health risks, deceit and unfairness. I argue that perhaps the doping sinner best exemplifies human dignity and existential authenticity. |
Pieter Bonte |
23 October, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: Ethics and Expectations: Part II |
The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics. Outside traditional philosophical discussion, the trolley problem has been a significant feature in the fields of cognitive science and neuroethics. |
Seth Lazar |
21 October, 2013 |
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| Virtuous Climate Making? Towards a Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Geoengineering |
Geoengineering, as a response to climate change, raises serious ethical and socio-political issues. Drawing on the latest developments in philosophy and ethics of technology and science, I consider a post-humanist way of analysing such issues. |
Pak-Hang Wong |
3 July, 2013 |
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| The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision |
In this talk, I argue that non-therapeutic circumcision of infants is unethical, whether performed for reasons of obtaining possible future health benefits, for reasons of cultural transmission, or for reasons of perceived religious obligation. |
Brian Earp |
27 June, 2013 |
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| TT13 Uehiro Seminar: Attention, Action, and Responsibility |
The speaker proposes a four-step account of action, within which only two of the four steps benefit from the subject's attention, revealing a potential disconnect between the subject of experience and the morally responsible agent. |
Carolyn Dicey Jennings |
18 June, 2013 |
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| Using Religion to Justify Violence |
Exploring different ways in which the metaphysics of religious world views can be used in justifications of violence, this talk concentrates on appeals to the importance of the afterlife to justify violence. |
Steve Clarke |
18 June, 2013 |
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| 2nd St Cross Seminar TT13: Ethics In Finance: A New Financial Theory For A Post-Financialized World |
The lecture describes why financial theory and teaching has ignored ethics, viewing moral values as irrelevant. We trace the reason for the neglect of ethics back to assumptions made by Modern Finance Theory, the en courant theory in finance. |
Dr Kara Tan Bhala |
6 June, 2013 |
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| Folk Psychology, the Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility |
In this talk we first argue that the reactive attitudes originate in very fast non-voluntary processes involving constant facial feedback. In the second part we examine the supposed constitutive relation between the reactive attitudes and responsibility. |
Jeanette Kennett |
30 May, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: The current laws on drugs and alcohol - ineffective, dishonest and unethical? |
Nutt argues that there are serious ethical implications for a simplistic prohibitionist approach to drugs and suggests alternative strategies that might be used. |
David Nutt |
27 May, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Special Double Seminar: Enhancement |
Associate Professor Rob Sparrow (Monash) and PhD student Chris Gyngell (ANU) present talks on the topic of human enhancement. |
Rob Sparrow, Chris Gyngell |
22 May, 2013 |
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| 1st St Cross Seminar TT13: Precarious (bio)ethics: research on poisoning patients in Sri Lanka |
Self-harm using poison is a serious public health problem in Sri Lanka. As part of an effort to tackle the problem, clinical trials are used to identify effective antidotes. This talk describes the conduct of trials in this unusual and difficult context. |
Salla Sariola |
15 May, 2013 |
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| Uehiro Seminar: Rescuing Responsibility from the Retributivists - Neuroscience, Free Will and Criminal Punishment |
Legal punishment as the routine infliction of suffering poses a serious challenge of justification. The challenge becomes more urgent as a number of thinkers argue that the dominant, retributivist answer fails in the light of the findings of neuroscience. |
Frej Klem Thomsen |
2 May, 2013 |
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| Astor Keynote Lecture: What Rights May be Defended by Means of War? |
Many aims that motivate unjust wars could be achieved without violence if not met with military resistance. So is self-defense against aggression always permissible? Are the values of state sovereignty important enough to justify war in their defense? |
Jeff McMahan |
11 April, 2013 |
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| Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve? |
How do we know when our donations are helping, and how much they are helping? Are charities roughly equally good, or are some much more effective than others? Toby Ord and Harry Shannon discuss effective philanthropy from different angles. |
Toby Ord, Harry Shannon |
6 March, 2013 |
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| Opening the Black Box: Examining the Deliberation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the UK and US; Second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar HT13 |
How best to govern the field of assisted reproductive technologies? As UK and US authorities utilise different approaches, will the disparate structures and missions of these two bodies result in significantly different answers? |
Kyle Edwards |
5 March, 2013 |
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