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Week 1 - Wednesday 20 January

Week 2 - Wednesday 27 January

Carl Shulman (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) 
"Digital Intelligences and the Evolution of Superorganisms"

 

Week 3 - Wednesday 3 February

**THIS SEMINAR WILL BE HELD FROM 4.00 PM - 6.00 PM**

Dr Robin Pierce (Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University)
"Setting Margins for Therapeutic Justice: Circumscribing Consent"

Dr Jakob Elster (Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, & Ethics Programme, University of Oslo)
"The Brain and its Law"

 

Week 4 - Wednesday 10 February

**Special Seminar**
Professor Sujoy Mukerji (Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
"Decision making under ambiguous uncertainty"

 

Week 5 - Wednesday 17 February

*Discussion session* Papers are to be read in advance, and will be made available on the website and circulated to the mailing list on the Thursday of the preceding week. Each 1 hour discussion will start with a brief presentation of the paper (not more than 10-15 minutes) followed by discussion.

Dr Neil Levy (Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford)
"The role of consciousness in morally responsible action"

Dr Guy Kahane (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
"The Crippled Armchair: An Argument for Experimental Ethics"

 

Week 6 - Wednesday 24 February

**THIS SEMINAR WILL BE HELD FROM 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM**

Dr Adrian Walsh (University of New England, Australia)
"Human organ sales as a distinctive moral hazard"

Dr Mark Sheehan (Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences, & Ethox Centre, University of Oxford)
"Dealing in Pieces of Silver: Financial Inducements in Research"

 

Week 7 - Wednesday 3 March

Dr Hanna Pickard (Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford) & Steve Pearce (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust)
“Finding The Will To Recover: Philosophical Perspectives On Agency And The Sick Role”

 

Week 8 - Wednesday 10 March

Dr Shane Legg (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London)
"What can the architecture of the brain teach us about artificial intelligence?"

Professor Robin Hanson  (Department of Economics, George Mason University)
"We Don't Donate To The Distant Future; Do We Care?"