The Ethics of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes and Gene-Drive Technology
Written by Jonathan Pugh This is an unedited version of a paper by Dr Pugh which was originally published on The Conversation: please see here to read the original article In a startling development in ‘gene-drive’ technology, a team of res…
Read MorePodcast: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation
Dr Jonathan Pugh’s St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on 12 November 2015 is now available at http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/MT15_STX_Pugh.mp3 Speaker: Dr Jonathan Pugh Although a central tenet of medical ethics holds that it is permi…
Read MoreHow much would you pay to live an extra year?
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford @Neonatalethics Medical science continues to push at the boundaries of life and death with new drugs and technologies that can extend life or improve health. But these advances come at a cost. And tha…
Read MoreLoebel Lecture 3 of 3: What is the upshot?
Lecture 3 Audio [MP3] | YouTube link [MP4] Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Longwall Street, Oxford 5 November 2015, 6-8pm
Read MoreLecture 2 of 3: Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry
Lecture 2 Audio [MP3] | YouTube link [MP4] Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Longwall Street, Oxford 4 November 2015, 6-8pm
Read MoreLoebel Lectures and Workshop, Michaelmas Term 2015, Lecture 1 of 3: Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human
The 2015 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy were delivered by Professor Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as Harvard University Distinguished…
Read MoreDoping: Russian Cheats or a Failed System?
A stunning report from a WADA Commission, led by former head of WADA Dick Pound has made a series of allegations against Russian athletes and authorities, including that 1400 samples were deliberately destroyed ahead of a visit by WADA. It …
Read MoreAnnouncement: Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
Graduate and undergraduate students currently enrolled at the University of Oxford in any subject are invited to enter the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics by submitting an essay of up to 2000 words on any topic relevant to practical…
Read MorePre-marital cohabitation endangers your marriage
By Charles Foster Marriage is not well served by its defenders. The loudest and best reported of them are often fundamentalist bigots. It’s a shame, for marriage has a lot going for it. Even if you think that marriage is an anachronistic/bo…
Read MoreGuest Post: KILLER ROBOTS AND THE ETHICS OF WAR IN THE 21th CENTURY
Written by Darlei Dall’Agnol[1] I attended, recently, the course Drones, Robots and the Ethics of Armed Conflict in the 21st Century, at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University, which is, by the way, offering a wide range…
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