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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.

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Title	Description	People	Date
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	6 November, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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 August, 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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	7 February, 2017
Implicit Bias and Racism	Paper presented by Neil Levy at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop.	Neil Levy	23 November, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016	Human Rights, Global Ethics and the Ordinary Virtues	Michael Ignatieff	23 November, 2016
What if Kant were a designer?	Constantin Vică presents work in the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop	Constantin Vică	22 November, 2016
Designing for conviviality	Cristina Voinea presents work at the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop.	Cristina Voinea	22 November, 2016
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
Offsetting Class Privilege	Holly Lawford-Smith discusses her Journal of Practical Ethics article, Offsetting Class Privilege	Holly Lawford-Smith, David Edmonds	22 July, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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, Aaron Ancell	9 December, 2015
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	9 December, 2015
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	9 December, 2015
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	9 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
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
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 November, 2015
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 November, 2015
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 November, 2015
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 November, 2015
Moral Conformity	Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Ethics at Duke University.	Walter Sinnott-Armstrong	14 July, 2015
Happiness, Unhappiness, and Suffering	Hawkins is Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Trent Scholar in Bioethics at Duke University.	Jennifer Hawkins, Jeff McMahan	14 July, 2015
Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Moral Progress	Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.	Allen Buchanan	14 July, 2015
Can you choose to be gay?	Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.	Brian Earp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds	14 July, 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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	4 November, 2014
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 October, 2014
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 October, 2014
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 October, 2014
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 October, 2014
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 October, 2014
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	6 October, 2014
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 September, 2014
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 September, 2014
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 July, 2014
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
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
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
Justification for Killing in War	Nigel Warburton talks with Seth Lazar on the ethics and justification of killing in war	Seth Lazar, Nigel Warburton	8 January, 2014
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
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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