Week 1 - Wednesday, 29th April
Dr Cathy Legg (Department of Philosophy, University of Waikato, New Zealand) “Scientific Integrity”
Dr Nicole Vincent (Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology) “Cognitive Enhancement and Increased Responsibility”
Week 2 - Wednesday, 6th May
Professor James Griffin (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford) “What can biology and psychology tell us about ethics?”
Professor Robin Dunbar (Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford) "Cognitive constraints on social networks”
Week 3 - Wednesday, 13th May
Dr Stuart Armstrong (Senior Researcher, InhibOx) “Chaining God: Friendly AI's when you don't know the meaning of the term”
Professor Ralph Wedgwood (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford) "Degrees of Double Effect”
Week 4 - Wednesday, 20th May
Dr Jeremy Howick (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford): “Questioning the methodological superiority of 'placebo' over 'active' controlled trials"
Dr Kathleen Taylor (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) “Science and Cruelty”
Week 5 - Wednesday, 27th May
Professor Matthew Rushworth (Department of Experimental Psychology and Oxford University FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford) "The medial frontal cortex: a brain region for detecting conflict?"
Dr Guy Kahane (Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford) “Nihilism: Nothing to be Afraid of”
Week 6 - Wednesday, 3rd June
Professor Folke Tersman (Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University) “Non-Debunking Evolutionary Explanations of Moral Intuitions”
Dr Barbro Fröding (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford) “On the importance of treating oneself well"
Week 7 - Wednesday, 10th June
Dr Dominic Wilkinson (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford) “A life worth giving: the threshold for withdrawal of life support from newborn infants"
Dr Davinia Talbot (Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Universität Münster) “‘None of my business’. Why physicians are wrong in abstaining from (neuro-)enhancement matters”
Week 8 - 17th June
Dr Lisa Bortolotti (Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham) “Agency, Life Extension, and the Meaning of Life"
Gerard Vong (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford) "Weighing up Weighted Lottery Approaches to the Number Problem"
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