Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences
Science in the 21st Century may radically and profoundly change human life. Without practical ethics, our knowledge of what we can do will radically outstrip our understanding of what we should do. Read more...
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James Martin Research Seminars - Week 6
Wednesday, 18 November - 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm
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?"
Further details, abstracts, and full programme available on Teaching page
read more...Last updated: 2009-11-17
Blackham Fellowships
The Blackham Fellowships are administered by the British Humanist Association (BHA), New Humanist and the South Place Ethical Society(SPES). The Fellowship consists of a grant of £10,000 for the purpose of transforming doctoral research in a field covered by the Blackham Fellowships into publishable form as a book. read more...
Last updated: 2009-11-17
Launch of Oxford Geoengineering Institute
Julian Savulescu has been invited to serve on the Institute's advisory board, which will oversee and guide the Institute in its aims to further our understanding of geoengineering - the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's natural systems to address climate change. read more...
Last updated: 2009-11-17
Announcement: Laces Trust Scholarship in the Philosophy/Ethics of Psychiatry and/or Neuroscience
The Laces Trust has very generously agreed to fund a scholarship at St Cross College. Applications are invited read more...
Last updated: 2009-11-17
Practical Ethics in the News
Researchers from the Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences, the Future of Humanity Insitute, and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics provide a daily ethical analysis of science and technology currently in the news in our increasingly popular blog.