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Podcast Profile: Uehiro Oxford Institute

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136 episodes
2009 to 2024
Median: 47 minutes
Collection: Philosophy


Description (podcaster-provided):

A selection of seminars and special lectures on wide-ranging topics relating to practical ethics brought to you by the Uehiro Oxford Institute.


Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Practical ethics • Moral philosophy • AI and democracy • Healthcare ethics • Informed consent • Biomedical technology • Social justice and governance • Neuroscience and moral responsibility • Ethical dilemmas in medicine and society

This podcast, produced by the Uehiro Oxford Institute, offers a series of seminars and lectures focused on practical ethics, showcasing a wide array of philosophical and ethical topics. The content explores contemporary ethical dilemmas and theoretical debates, often examined through various lenses like artificial intelligence, healthcare, bioethics, and justice. A recurring theme is the intersection of ethics with modern technology, as seen in discussions on AI, brain-machine interfaces, and digital consent methods like blockchain. Various episodes delve into moral and ethical questions surrounding medical practices such as vaccine trials, euthanasia, and genetic technologies.

Listeners can expect nuanced discussions on the moral implications of mental health and decision-making capacity, as well as broader societal structures like democracy, justice, and political communication. The podcast occasionally presents debates on controversial practices, encouraging reflections on topics like consent, moral responsibilities of researchers, and societal constructs. Ethical reinterpretations of traditional topics, such as moral perception in military ethics and the moral challenges in the gig economy, are infused with insights from current scientific and social research.

Conversations often reflect on how ethics interacts with personal identity, exploring how concepts of hope, mental privacy, and personality influence moral theories and decision-making processes. The podcast is particularly rich in exploring the implications of ethical theories in real-world contexts, blending theoretical insights with practical applications. Overall, the podcast aims to engage listeners in complex dialogues about the ethical challenges and questions faced in today's rapidly changing world.


Episodes:
The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections
2024-Mar-28
38 minutes
Morality and Personality
2023-Nov-09
45 minutes
Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency
2023-Mar-13
30 minutes
Shallow Cognizing for Self-Control over Emotion & Desire
2023-Feb-02
45 minutes
The Moral Machine Experiment
2022-Nov-09
49 minutes
Hope in Healthcare
2022-Jun-20
48 minutes
Against Legalizing Female 'Circumcision' of Minors
2022-May-16
67 minutes
Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health
2021-Nov-24
53 minutes
Do We Need Mental Privacy? The Ethics of Mind Reading Reloaded
2021-Nov-22
35 minutes
Waiver or understanding? A dilemma for autonomists about informed consent
2021-Jun-08
44 minutes
Fighting diseases of poverty through research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
2021-May-24
52 minutes
Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research
2021-Mar-01
39 minutes
The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived
2021-Jan-27
44 minutes
Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity
2020-Nov-23
47 minutes
Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare
2020-Oct-14
88 minutes
Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury
2020-Jun-19
56 minutes
Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury (Transcript)
2020-Jun-19

Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading
2020-May-11
83 minutes
Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading (Transcript)
2020-May-11

Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
2020-Feb-17
39 minutes
Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective (Transcript)
2020-Feb-17

Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution?
2019-Dec-02
31 minutes
Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research
2019-Nov-13
31 minutes
Genetic Selection and Enhancement
2019-Nov-04
55 minutes
From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context
2019-Oct-07
47 minutes
Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace
2019-Jun-20
53 minutes
One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics
2019-Jun-19
43 minutes
Religion, War and Terrorism
2019-May-01
43 minutes
The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel
2019-Mar-26
56 minutes
Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?
2019-Mar-04
41 minutes
The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09
2019-Feb-12
50 minutes
Political Bioethics
2018-Nov-06
52 minutes
Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges
2018-Oct-23
81 minutes
Fake News and the Politics of Truth
2018-Oct-08
54 minutes
Minds Without Spines: Toward a More Comprehensive Animal Ethics
2018-Jun-19
46 minutes
Rethinking 'Disease': A Fresh Diagnosis and a New Philosophical Treatment
2018-Jun-19
40 minutes
Cost-benefit analysis
2018-Jun-11
69 minutes
Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well
2018-Jun-08
36 minutes
The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades
2018-May-21
55 minutes
Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action
2018-Feb-19
46 minutes
Collective inaction and group-based ignorance
2018-Feb-06
39 minutes
Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life
2017-Nov-13
39 minutes
On Moral Experts
2017-Nov-13
41 minutes
Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement
2017-Jul-05
49 minutes
Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
2017-Jun-29
43 minutes
Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science
2017-Jun-27
37 minutes
Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition
2017-Jun-06
82 minutes
Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes
2017-Mar-08
40 minutes
The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)
2017-Feb-23
55 minutes
Implicit Bias and Racism
2016-Nov-23
20 minutes
The Contribution of Neuroethics for Responsible Management Education
2016-Nov-23
22 minutes
Neurointerventions to Prevent Crime and the Problem of Unjustified Incarceration
2016-Nov-23
24 minutes
The New Problem of Personal Force in Morality
2016-Nov-23
22 minutes
Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene's Dual Process Theory
2016-Nov-23
18 minutes
Moral Reasoning is Not Like a Dog's Tail: A Critical Analysis of Social Intuitionism's Two Illusions of Moral Deliberation
2016-Nov-23
18 minutes
Homo reciprocans from Neuroscience: a limited reciprocity. A criticism from neuroethics
2016-Nov-23
20 minutes
No pain, no praise: motivational enhancement and the meaning of life
2016-Nov-23
18 minutes
Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016
2016-Nov-23
49 minutes
What if Kant were a designer?
2016-Nov-22
15 minutes
Designing for conviviality
2016-Nov-22
23 minutes
Parfitian Survival and Punishing Crimes from the Distant Past
2016-Nov-22
20 minutes
St Cross Seminar: The role of therapeutic optimism in recruitment to a clinical trial: an empirical study
2016-May-16
49 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle
2016-Mar-17
47 minutes
Leverhulme Lecture 2: Moral Responsibility and Implicit Bias
2016-Feb-23
60 minutes
Leverhulme Lecture 1: The Nature and the Significance of Implicit Bias
2016-Feb-23
55 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes?
2016-Feb-01
24 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation
2015-Nov-18
45 minutes
Moral Conformity
2015-Jul-14
49 minutes
St Cross Seminar: The 'New' Guestworker? Rethinking the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programme
2015-Jun-10
34 minutes
St Cross Seminar: The moral insignificance of self-consciousness
2015-Jun-10
39 minutes
Brain Science and the Military
2015-Apr-17
46 minutes
2015 Leverhulme Lecture (3): Marshmallows and Moderation
2015-Mar-10
50 minutes
2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control
2015-Mar-09
55 minutes
2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management
2015-Mar-04
39 minutes
St Cross Seminar: On Swearing
2015-Feb-23
31 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life
2015-Feb-04
67 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory
2014-Dec-03
59 minutes
Bioethics and the Burden of Proof
2014-Nov-14
47 minutes
Implicit Moral Attitudes
2014-Nov-14
46 minutes
Special Seminar: The enhancement debate: trusting emotion or trusting reason - a false dichotomy?
2014-Jun-16
43 minutes
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
2014-Jun-16
35 minutes
St Cross Seminar: "I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen": Consenting without Understanding
2014-May-19
44 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral?
2013-Dec-05
46 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Genetic parenthood, assisted reproduction, and the values of parental love
2013-Dec-04
49 minutes
2013 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics: The Irresponsible Self: Self bias changes the way we see the world
2013-Dec-04
33 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Do antidepressants work and if so how?
2013-Dec-04
49 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Cyborg justice: human enhancement and punishment
2013-Nov-19
58 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: The struggle between liberties and authorities in the information age
2013-Nov-13
38 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Neither God nor Nature. Could the doping sinner be an exemplar of human(ist) dignity?
2013-Oct-23
48 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Ethics and Expectations: Part II
2013-Oct-21
48 minutes
Virtuous Climate Making? Towards a Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Geoengineering
2013-Jul-03
76 minutes
The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
2013-Jun-27
52 minutes
TT13 Uehiro Seminar: Attention, Action, and Responsibility
2013-Jun-18
86 minutes
Using Religion to Justify Violence
2013-Jun-18
36 minutes
2nd St Cross Seminar TT13: Ethics In Finance: A New Financial Theory For A Post-Financialized World
2013-Jun-06
51 minutes
Folk Psychology, the Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility
2013-May-30
52 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: The current laws on drugs and alcohol - ineffective, dishonest and unethical?
2013-May-27
73 minutes
Uehiro Special Double Seminar: Enhancement
2013-May-22
116 minutes
1st St Cross Seminar TT13: Precarious (bio)ethics: research on poisoning patients in Sri Lanka
2013-May-15
40 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Rescuing Responsibility from the Retributivists - Neuroscience, Free Will and Criminal Punishment
2013-May-02
41 minutes
Astor Keynote Lecture: What Rights May be Defended by Means of War?
2013-Apr-11
55 minutes
Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve?
2013-Mar-06
49 minutes
Opening the Black Box: Examining the Deliberation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the UK and US; Second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar HT13
2013-Mar-05
30 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: The Value of Uncertainty
2013-Mar-05
48 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Psychopaths and responsibility
2013-Feb-26
52 minutes
Debate: The Value of Life
2013-Feb-15
61 minutes
1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children's Welfare
2013-Feb-05
80 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: Sleep and Opportunity for Well-being
2013-Feb-05
42 minutes
If I could just stop loving you: Anti-love drugs and the ethics of a chemical break-up
2012-Dec-04
40 minutes
2012 Leverhulme Lecture 1: Some Problems about Religion in the Political Sphere: the dangers of instability and violence
2012-Nov-22
47 minutes
2012 Leverhulme Lecture 2: Reason, Religion and Public Discourse in a Liberal Democracy
2012-Nov-22
51 minutes
2012 Leverhulme Lecture 3: Religious Virtues, Democratic Virtues and their interaction in Practice
2012-Nov-22
51 minutes
The bad seed: facts and values in the study of childhood antisocial behaviour
2012-Nov-19
93 minutes
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion
2012-Oct-24
38 minutes
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia
2012-Oct-23
38 minutes
Uehiro Seminar: The Ethics of Creating Designer Babies
2012-Oct-18
82 minutes
Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics
2012-Jun-20
59 minutes
Counter-terrorism and its Ethical Hazards
2012-Jun-14
85 minutes
Philosophical Theory and the Justification of Terrorism
2012-Jun-06
90 minutes
St Cross Seminar: Informing Egg Donors of the Potential for Embryonic Research
2012-May-30
80 minutes
Geoengineering: Science, politics and ethics
2012-May-23
59 minutes
The Ethics of Entertainment: a case study of Popular Cinema in China and India
2012-May-10
60 minutes
Lecture: Rumour, conspiracy theory and propaganda
2012-Apr-16
86 minutes
St Cross Seminar HT12: Cooperation, altruism and cheating in micro-organisms
2012-Feb-27
62 minutes
Foundations of Rights of Access to the Benefits of Science in International Law
2012-Feb-08
34 minutes
EU ban on hESC Patents: A Threat to Science and the Rule of Law
2012-Jan-23
53 minutes
2nd St Cross Seminar MT11: Dr Margaret Yee
2011-Dec-08
50 minutes
Bio-ethics Bites: Onora O'Neill on Trust
2011-Sep-01
18 minutes
2nd St Cross Special Ethics Seminar TT11: Museum Ethics
2011-Jun-29
54 minutes
Human Rights vs Religion?
2011-Jun-20
32 minutes
Savulescu interview: Moral Enhancement
2011-Jun-01
24 minutes
Prioritarianism, Levelling Down and Welfare Diffusion
2011-Mar-28
84 minutes
New Imaging Evidence for the Neural Bases of Moral Sentiments: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour
2011-Mar-28
65 minutes
Hug me daddy I hate you: the ethical challenges of a C21 business
2011-Mar-22
48 minutes
Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar
2011-Jan-24
61 minutes
The Flipside of Scientific Freedom
2009-Aug-12
15 minutes