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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

A selection of seminars and special lectures on wide-ranging topics relating to practical ethics. The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics was established in 2002 with the support of the Uehiro ... Read more

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Brain Science and the Military

Brain Science and the Military

In this talk I explain the nature of national security interest in the burgeoning field of neuroscience and its implicat... Read more

17 Apr 2015

46mins

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The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)

The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)

In this public lecture, Dr William Casebeer discusses neuroscience, human agency and free will. The findings of neurosci... Read more

23 Feb 2017

55mins

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The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion

The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion

The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Abortion.

24 Oct 2012

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Uehiro Seminar: The Value of Uncertainty

Uehiro Seminar: The Value of Uncertainty

Uncertainty and quality should be integrated into the quantitative sciences of complex systems; this talk offers some pr... Read more

5 Mar 2013

48mins

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Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes

Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes

Professor Richman's talk combines differing theories of models of autism and moral responsibility, and explores the prac... Read more

8 Mar 2017

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Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective

Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective

In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy,... Read more

17 Feb 2020

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St Cross Seminar: On Swearing

St Cross Seminar: On Swearing

What, if anything, is wrong with swearing? And, what exactly are we doing when we try to swear inoffensively? I begin b... Read more

23 Feb 2015

31mins

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Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene's Dual Process Theory

Can we Dissociate Reason from Feelings? Ten Critical Philosophical Questions to Greene's Dual Process Theory

Paper presented by Javier Gracia and Andrés Richard at the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. Exploring various ... Read more

23 Nov 2016

18mins

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Implicit Moral Attitudes

Implicit Moral Attitudes

Research shows that implicit moral attitudes affect our thinking and behavior. This talk reports new psychological and n... Read more

14 Nov 2014

46mins

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1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children's Welfare

1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children's Welfare

Anthony Skelton examines possible reasons why philosophers have neglected to discuss children's welfare. After outlinin... Read more

5 Feb 2013

1hr 20mins

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From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context

From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context

In November 2018, a Chinese scientist announced the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies and sparked outrage ac... Read more

7 Oct 2019

47mins

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Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace

Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace

Professor Seumas Miller defines fake news, hate speech and propaganda, discusses the relationship between social media a... Read more

20 Jun 2019

53mins

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Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral?

Uehiro Seminar: Is Networking Immoral?

If networking is considered to be either cultivating non-merit-based favouritism or demonstrating one’s merit in advance... Read more

5 Dec 2013

46mins

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St Cross Seminar: "I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen": Consenting without Understanding

St Cross Seminar: "I wouldn’t have consented if I’d known that could happen": Consenting without Understanding

Tom Walker discusses autonomy and informed consent to medical treatment There are two features of consenting to medical ... Read more

19 May 2014

44mins

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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

Opening the Black Box: Examining the Deliberation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the UK and US; Second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar HT13

How best to govern the field of assisted reproductive technologies? As UK and US authorities utilise different approache... Read more

5 Mar 2013

30mins

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One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics

One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics

In this special lecture, Professor Mitt Regan discusses the latest research in moral perception and judgment, and the po... Read more

19 Jun 2019

43mins

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Moral Conformity

Moral Conformity

Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Ethics at Duke University. In this inaugural workshop, professo... Read more

14 Jul 2015

49mins

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The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel

The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel

Professor Seumas Miller sets out how the use of lethal and coercive forces may erode moral character and cause moral inj... Read more

26 Mar 2019

56mins

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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

Moral Reasoning is Not Like a Dog's Tail: A Critical Analysis of Social Intuitionism's Two Illusions of Moral Deliberation

Paper presented Pedro Jesús Pérez Zafrilla the MT16 Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop. Exploring various themes in ne... Read more

23 Nov 2016

18mins

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Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?

Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?

Is 'gig work' exploitative and injust? In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Daniel Halliday examines the common... Read more

4 Mar 2019

41mins

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