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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics — 136 episodes · page 1 of 2
The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections
Morality and Personality
Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency
Shallow Cognizing for Self-Control over Emotion & Desire
The Moral Machine Experiment
Hope in Healthcare
Against Legalizing Female 'Circumcision' of Minors
Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health
Do We Need Mental Privacy? The Ethics of Mind Reading Reloaded
Waiver or understanding? A dilemma for autonomists about informed consent
Fighting diseases of poverty through research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research
The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived
Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity
Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare
Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury
Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading
Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution?
Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research
Genetic Selection and Enhancement
From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context
Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace
One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics
Religion, War and Terrorism
The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel
Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?
The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09
Political Bioethics
Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges
Fake News and the Politics of Truth
Minds Without Spines: Toward a More Comprehensive Animal Ethics
Rethinking 'Disease': A Fresh Diagnosis and a New Philosophical Treatment
Cost-benefit analysis
Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well
The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades
Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action
Collective inaction and group-based ignorance
Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life
On Moral Experts
Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement
Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science
Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition
Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes
The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)
Implicit Bias and Racism
The Contribution of Neuroethics for Responsible Management Education
Neurointerventions to Prevent Crime and the Problem of Unjustified Incarceration
The New Problem of Personal Force in Morality
Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene's Dual Process Theory
Moral Reasoning is Not Like a Dog's Tail: A Critical Analysis of Social Intuitionism's Two Illusions of Moral Deliberation
Homo reciprocans from Neuroscience: a limited reciprocity. A criticism from neuroethics
No pain, no praise: motivational enhancement and the meaning of life
Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016
What if Kant were a designer?
Designing for conviviality
Parfitian Survival and Punishing Crimes from the Distant Past
St Cross Seminar: The role of therapeutic optimism in recruitment to a clinical trial: an empirical study
St Cross Seminar: Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle
Leverhulme Lecture 2: Moral Responsibility and Implicit Bias
Leverhulme Lecture 1: The Nature and the Significance of Implicit Bias
St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes?
St Cross Seminar: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation
Moral Conformity
St Cross Seminar: The 'New' Guestworker? Rethinking the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programme
St Cross Seminar: The moral insignificance of self-consciousness
Brain Science and the Military
2015 Leverhulme Lecture (3): Marshmallows and Moderation
2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control
2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management
St Cross Seminar: On Swearing
St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life
St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory
Bioethics and the Burden of Proof
Implicit Moral Attitudes
Special Seminar: The enhancement debate: trusting emotion or trusting reason - a false dichotomy?
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
St Cross Seminar: "I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen": Consenting without Understanding
Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral?
St Cross Seminar: Genetic parenthood, assisted reproduction, and the values of parental love
2013 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics: The Irresponsible Self: Self bias changes the way we see the world
Uehiro Seminar: Do antidepressants work and if so how?
Uehiro Seminar: Cyborg justice: human enhancement and punishment
Uehiro Seminar: The struggle between liberties and authorities in the information age
St Cross Seminar: Neither God nor Nature. Could the doping sinner be an exemplar of human(ist) dignity?
Uehiro Seminar: Ethics and Expectations: Part II
Virtuous Climate Making? Towards a Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Geoengineering
The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
TT13 Uehiro Seminar: Attention, Action, and Responsibility
Using Religion to Justify Violence
2nd St Cross Seminar TT13: Ethics In Finance: A New Financial Theory For A Post-Financialized World
Folk Psychology, the Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility
Uehiro Seminar: The current laws on drugs and alcohol - ineffective, dishonest and unethical?
Uehiro Special Double Seminar: Enhancement
1st St Cross Seminar TT13: Precarious (bio)ethics: research on poisoning patients in Sri Lanka
Uehiro Seminar: Rescuing Responsibility from the Retributivists - Neuroscience, Free Will and Criminal Punishment
Astor Keynote Lecture: What Rights May be Defended by Means of War?
Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve?
Opening the Black Box: Examining the Deliberation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the UK and US; Second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar HT13