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:
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The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections
2024-Mar-28
38 minutes
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Morality and Personality
2023-Nov-09
45 minutes
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Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency
2023-Mar-13
30 minutes
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Shallow Cognizing for Self-Control over Emotion & Desire
2023-Feb-02
45 minutes
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The Moral Machine Experiment
2022-Nov-09
49 minutes
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Hope in Healthcare
2022-Jun-20
48 minutes
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Against Legalizing Female 'Circumcision' of Minors
2022-May-16
67 minutes
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Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health
2021-Nov-24
53 minutes
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Do We Need Mental Privacy? The Ethics of Mind Reading Reloaded
2021-Nov-22
35 minutes
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Waiver or understanding? A dilemma for autonomists about informed consent
2021-Jun-08
44 minutes
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Fighting diseases of poverty through research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
2021-May-24
52 minutes
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Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research
2021-Mar-01
39 minutes
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The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived
2021-Jan-27
44 minutes
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Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity
2020-Nov-23
47 minutes
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Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare
2020-Oct-14
88 minutes
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Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury
2020-Jun-19
56 minutes
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Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury (Transcript)
2020-Jun-19
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Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading
2020-May-11
83 minutes
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Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading (Transcript)
2020-May-11
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Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
2020-Feb-17
39 minutes
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Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective (Transcript)
2020-Feb-17
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Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution?
2019-Dec-02
31 minutes
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Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research
2019-Nov-13
31 minutes
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Genetic Selection and Enhancement
2019-Nov-04
55 minutes
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From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context
2019-Oct-07
47 minutes
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Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace
2019-Jun-20
53 minutes
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One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics
2019-Jun-19
43 minutes
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Religion, War and Terrorism
2019-May-01
43 minutes
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The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel
2019-Mar-26
56 minutes
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Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?
2019-Mar-04
41 minutes
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The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09
2019-Feb-12
50 minutes
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Political Bioethics
2018-Nov-06
52 minutes
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Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges
2018-Oct-23
81 minutes
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Fake News and the Politics of Truth
2018-Oct-08
54 minutes
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Minds Without Spines: Toward a More Comprehensive Animal Ethics
2018-Jun-19
46 minutes
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Rethinking 'Disease': A Fresh Diagnosis and a New Philosophical Treatment
2018-Jun-19
40 minutes
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Cost-benefit analysis
2018-Jun-11
69 minutes
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Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well
2018-Jun-08
36 minutes
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The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades
2018-May-21
55 minutes
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Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action
2018-Feb-19
46 minutes
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Collective inaction and group-based ignorance
2018-Feb-06
39 minutes
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Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life
2017-Nov-13
39 minutes
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On Moral Experts
2017-Nov-13
41 minutes
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Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement
2017-Jul-05
49 minutes
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Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
2017-Jun-29
43 minutes
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Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science
2017-Jun-27
37 minutes
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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
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Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes
2017-Mar-08
40 minutes
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The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)
2017-Feb-23
55 minutes
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Implicit Bias and Racism
2016-Nov-23
20 minutes
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The Contribution of Neuroethics for Responsible Management Education
2016-Nov-23
22 minutes
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Neurointerventions to Prevent Crime and the Problem of Unjustified Incarceration
2016-Nov-23
24 minutes
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The New Problem of Personal Force in Morality
2016-Nov-23
22 minutes
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Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene's Dual Process Theory
2016-Nov-23
18 minutes
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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
2016-Nov-23
18 minutes
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Homo reciprocans from Neuroscience: a limited reciprocity. A criticism from neuroethics
2016-Nov-23
20 minutes
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No pain, no praise: motivational enhancement and the meaning of life
2016-Nov-23
18 minutes
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Uehiro-Carnegie-Oxford Lecture in Practical Ethics 2016
2016-Nov-23
49 minutes
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What if Kant were a designer?
2016-Nov-22
15 minutes
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Designing for conviviality
2016-Nov-22
23 minutes
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Parfitian Survival and Punishing Crimes from the Distant Past
2016-Nov-22
20 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: The role of therapeutic optimism in recruitment to a clinical trial: an empirical study
2016-May-16
49 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle
2016-Mar-17
47 minutes
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Leverhulme Lecture 2: Moral Responsibility and Implicit Bias
2016-Feb-23
60 minutes
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Leverhulme Lecture 1: The Nature and the Significance of Implicit Bias
2016-Feb-23
55 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Governing life: is it wrong to intervene in biological processes?
2016-Feb-01
24 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation
2015-Nov-18
45 minutes
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Moral Conformity
2015-Jul-14
49 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: The 'New' Guestworker? Rethinking the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programme
2015-Jun-10
34 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: The moral insignificance of self-consciousness
2015-Jun-10
39 minutes
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Brain Science and the Military
2015-Apr-17
46 minutes
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2015 Leverhulme Lecture (3): Marshmallows and Moderation
2015-Mar-10
50 minutes
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2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control
2015-Mar-09
55 minutes
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2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management
2015-Mar-04
39 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: On Swearing
2015-Feb-23
31 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life
2015-Feb-04
67 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory
2014-Dec-03
59 minutes
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Bioethics and the Burden of Proof
2014-Nov-14
47 minutes
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Implicit Moral Attitudes
2014-Nov-14
46 minutes
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Special Seminar: The enhancement debate: trusting emotion or trusting reason - a false dichotomy?
2014-Jun-16
43 minutes
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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
2014-Jun-16
35 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: "I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen": Consenting without Understanding
2014-May-19
44 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral?
2013-Dec-05
46 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Genetic parenthood, assisted reproduction, and the values of parental love
2013-Dec-04
49 minutes
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2013 Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics: The Irresponsible Self: Self bias changes the way we see the world
2013-Dec-04
33 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Do antidepressants work and if so how?
2013-Dec-04
49 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Cyborg justice: human enhancement and punishment
2013-Nov-19
58 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: The struggle between liberties and authorities in the information age
2013-Nov-13
38 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Neither God nor Nature. Could the doping sinner be an exemplar of human(ist) dignity?
2013-Oct-23
48 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Ethics and Expectations: Part II
2013-Oct-21
48 minutes
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Virtuous Climate Making? Towards a Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Geoengineering
2013-Jul-03
76 minutes
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The Ethics of Infant Male Circumcision
2013-Jun-27
52 minutes
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TT13 Uehiro Seminar: Attention, Action, and Responsibility
2013-Jun-18
86 minutes
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Using Religion to Justify Violence
2013-Jun-18
36 minutes
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2nd St Cross Seminar TT13: Ethics In Finance: A New Financial Theory For A Post-Financialized World
2013-Jun-06
51 minutes
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Folk Psychology, the Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility
2013-May-30
52 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: The current laws on drugs and alcohol - ineffective, dishonest and unethical?
2013-May-27
73 minutes
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Uehiro Special Double Seminar: Enhancement
2013-May-22
116 minutes
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1st St Cross Seminar TT13: Precarious (bio)ethics: research on poisoning patients in Sri Lanka
2013-May-15
40 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Rescuing Responsibility from the Retributivists - Neuroscience, Free Will and Criminal Punishment
2013-May-02
41 minutes
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Astor Keynote Lecture: What Rights May be Defended by Means of War?
2013-Apr-11
55 minutes
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Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve?
2013-Mar-06
49 minutes
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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
2013-Mar-05
30 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: The Value of Uncertainty
2013-Mar-05
48 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Psychopaths and responsibility
2013-Feb-26
52 minutes
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Debate: The Value of Life
2013-Feb-15
61 minutes
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1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children's Welfare
2013-Feb-05
80 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: Sleep and Opportunity for Well-being
2013-Feb-05
42 minutes
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If I could just stop loving you: Anti-love drugs and the ethics of a chemical break-up
2012-Dec-04
40 minutes
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2012 Leverhulme Lecture 1: Some Problems about Religion in the Political Sphere: the dangers of instability and violence
2012-Nov-22
47 minutes
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2012 Leverhulme Lecture 2: Reason, Religion and Public Discourse in a Liberal Democracy
2012-Nov-22
51 minutes
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2012 Leverhulme Lecture 3: Religious Virtues, Democratic Virtues and their interaction in Practice
2012-Nov-22
51 minutes
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The bad seed: facts and values in the study of childhood antisocial behaviour
2012-Nov-19
93 minutes
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The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion
2012-Oct-24
38 minutes
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The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia
2012-Oct-23
38 minutes
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Uehiro Seminar: The Ethics of Creating Designer Babies
2012-Oct-18
82 minutes
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Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics
2012-Jun-20
59 minutes
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Counter-terrorism and its Ethical Hazards
2012-Jun-14
85 minutes
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Philosophical Theory and the Justification of Terrorism
2012-Jun-06
90 minutes
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St Cross Seminar: Informing Egg Donors of the Potential for Embryonic Research
2012-May-30
80 minutes
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Geoengineering: Science, politics and ethics
2012-May-23
59 minutes
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The Ethics of Entertainment: a case study of Popular Cinema in China and India
2012-May-10
60 minutes
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Lecture: Rumour, conspiracy theory and propaganda
2012-Apr-16
86 minutes
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St Cross Seminar HT12: Cooperation, altruism and cheating in micro-organisms
2012-Feb-27
62 minutes
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Foundations of Rights of Access to the Benefits of Science in International Law
2012-Feb-08
34 minutes
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EU ban on hESC Patents: A Threat to Science and the Rule of Law
2012-Jan-23
53 minutes
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2nd St Cross Seminar MT11: Dr Margaret Yee
2011-Dec-08
50 minutes
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Bio-ethics Bites: Onora O'Neill on Trust
2011-Sep-01
18 minutes
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2nd St Cross Special Ethics Seminar TT11: Museum Ethics
2011-Jun-29
54 minutes
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Human Rights vs Religion?
2011-Jun-20
32 minutes
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Savulescu interview: Moral Enhancement
2011-Jun-01
24 minutes
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Prioritarianism, Levelling Down and Welfare Diffusion
2011-Mar-28
84 minutes
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New Imaging Evidence for the Neural Bases of Moral Sentiments: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour
2011-Mar-28
65 minutes
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Hug me daddy I hate you: the ethical challenges of a C21 business
2011-Mar-22
48 minutes
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Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar
2011-Jan-24
61 minutes
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The Flipside of Scientific Freedom
2009-Aug-12
15 minutes
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