Week 1
Wednesday, 28 April *PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE - 4.00pm TO 5.00pm*
Dr Peter Taylor (Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences, University of Oxford
'The Mismeasure of Risk'
Week 2
Wednesday, 5 May
Professor Nigel M. de S. Cameron (President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies in Washington, DC)
'Can there be policy on enhancement?'
Professor Charles Webel (University of New York in Prague)
'A War of the World, or the End of War? Can a Nonviolent Strategy of Conflict Resolution be Effective in Ending the Global War on Terrorism?'
Week 3
Wednesday, 12 May
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (Information Ethics Group, University of Oxford)
'Levels of Responsibility in Informational Conflicts'
Frej Klem Thomsen (DPhil Student, Roskilde University; The Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
'"We Will Find the Black Man Who Did This" - Police Profiling and Epistemic Discrimination'
Week 4
Wednesday, 19 May - please note there is no seminar this week.
Week 5
Wednesday, 26 May
Dr Barbro Fröding, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
'Virtuous Choice and Parity'
Professor Martin Peterson (Eindhoven University of Technology)
'Some actions are neither right nor wrong: Abortion, euthanasia, and some other controversial examples'
Week 6
Wednesday, 2 June *PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE - 3.00pm TO 4.00pm*
Jean-François Bonnefon (Université de Toulouse 2 – Le Mirail)
'Reasoning about unjust rewards and punishments: Individual differences and behavioural experiments'
Week 7
Wednesday, 9 June * PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE - 4.00 TO 6.00 pm*
Dr Simon Rippon (Oxford-Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford; Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health)
'How to Reverse the Organ Shortage'
Elfed Huw Price (Independent scholar)
'The evolution of symbolic thought - a just so story'
Week 8
Wednesday, 16 June
Professor José Luis Pérez Triviño (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
'Altruism and Holocaust: some remarks'
Dr Mark Sheehan (Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences, & Ethox Centre, University of Oxford)
'Society in Science: Why should we involve patients and the public in research?'