Week 1
Wednesday, 14 October (change of time: 3.45 - 5.45pm)
Dr Michele Loi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
“From chance to chance: Eugenics and lotteries”
Professor Tom Buller (Philosophy Department, University of Alaska)
“Enhancement and the Extended Mind”
Week 2
Wednesday, 21 October
Professor Jacqueline Fox (University of South Carolina School of Law)
“Hidden Rationing of Healthcare: An Ethical Dilemma”
Dr Steve Clarke (The Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences, University of Oxford)
“Consequentialism, coercion, and salvation”
Week 3
Wednesday, 28 October *SPECIAL SEMINAR*
Professor Michael Oppenheimer (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University)
"Negative Learning" [Abstract | Paper]
Week 4
Wednesday, 4 November
Professor Ingmar Persson (University of Gothenburg and The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
“Could liberal democracy cope with climate change?”
Dr Davinia Talbot (Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Universität Münster)
“Elegantly muddling through: on the ethics of learning curves in medicine”
Week 5
Wednesday, 11 November
Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards (Distinguished Research Fellow, The Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
“Consent: invalid invalidity”
Dr Anders Sandberg (The Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
“"If it is bad, it is probably worse than you think": disasters and heavy tail distributions”
Week 6
Wednesday, 18 November
Dr Toby Ord (The Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
“Moral uncertainty”
Dr. Jason J. Blackstock (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) and Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada))
"Geoengineering the Climate: Technologies for rebalancing or reinforcing global inequity?"
Week 7
Wednesday, 25 November
David Rhys Birks (University of Manchester; University of Oxford)
"Wellbeing, Schizophrenia and Experience Machines"
Lene Bomann-Larsen (University of Oslo)
"Should parental freedom include a permission to enhance children?"
Week 8
Wednesday, 2 December
Alexandre Erler (DPhil Student, The Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
“Is memory modification compatible with an authentic life?”
Professor Thomas M. Powers (Science, Ethics, and Public Policy Progam, University of Delaware)
“Kantian humanism and human enhancement”