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  • Kahane, G. (2011), 'Virtue by Pills', Shaping Moral Psychology, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm (June )
  • Sandberg, A. (2011), 'The Ethics of brain emulation', Lecture for FACETS project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (7 June) 
  • Sandberg, A. (2011), 'Cognitive enhancement - does it work, and does it matter?' Invited lecture (Kognitionsförbättring - fungerar det, och spelar det någon roll?), Royal InstItute of Technology, Stockholm (16 March)
  • Sandberg, A. (2011),  Invited as external commenter on cognition enhancement, SESTI project final workshop, Brussels (28 June)    http://sesti.info/
  • Kahane, G. (2011), 'Brain Damage and the Moral Significance of Consciousness', Meeting of the European Neurological Society, Lisbon (May)
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Dual Processing and Moral Psychology. Social Cognition and Neuroscience Seminar. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (March )
  • Kahane, G. (2011), 'Investigating the Moral Brain', Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm (February)
  • Sandberg, A. (2011), Copying the mind? The ultimate limits and possibilities of computational neuroscience. Invited talk at NeuroArts Conference. University of Plymouth (11 February)
  • Sandberg, A. (2011), Kognitionsförbättring - fungerar det, och spelar det någon roll?" (Cognitive enhancement - does it work, and does it matter? Invited lecture at Royal Institute of Technology. Stockholm (16 March)
  • Savulescu, J. (2011), The Neuroscience of Moral Judgement. Zangwill Club Lecture. Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University (4 February)
  • Clarke, S. (2010), The Neuroscience of Decision Making and our Standards for Assessing Competence to Consent. 10th World Congress of Bioethics. Singapore 
  • Clarke, S. (2010), The Neuroscience of Decision-Making and Informed Consent in Medicine and Medical Research. Conference: 'Neurosociety...what is it with the brain these days?' INSIS, University of Oxford. 
  • Douglas, T. (2010), Cognitive Enhancement & Supra-Personal Moral Status. Australasian Association of Philosophy – New Zealand Conference 2010. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (5-9 December)
  • Douglas, T. and Devolder, K. (2010), Compromise in Bioethics and Neuroethics: What’s Wrong with It, and What to Do About It. 10th World Congress of Bioethics. Singapore (28-31 July )
  • Kahane, G. (2010), The Neuroscience of Morality. South Place Ethical Society. London (March)
  • Kahane, G. (2010), Cognitive Science and Normative Ethics (reply to Joshua Greene). American Philosophical Association Meeting. (December )
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), Enhancement of Juries. Memory and Neuroscience Conference. Tucson, Arizona (23 January)
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), Short presentations on  'Artificial intelligence' and 'memory enhancement' at conference on the ethics of emerging technologies. Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford (1 July)
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), Talk at the Oxford Transhumanist Group (Balliol College) on cognitive enhancement. (11 May)
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), Making humans smarter via cognitive enhancers. Talk at Humanity+ UK2010. London (24 April)
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), Talk at Rotary Stockholm on cognitive bias. Stockholm (13 October)
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), Talk "Enhancing and extending the mind: the science and ethics of cognitive enhancers" at the Oxford Medical Humanities group. Merton College, Oxford (23 November)
  • Sandberg, A. (2010), The value of better brains: cognition enhancement and the personal and social benefit of cognition Oxford neurosociety conference (InSIS and the European Neuroscience and Society Network). Oxford (7 December)
  • Savulescu, J. (2010), Participated in ‘Neuroethics Today’ debate, Neuroethics Symposium, Florey Neuroscience Institutes. Melbourne, Australia (7 September)
  • Wilkinson, D. (2010), Neonatal Neuroethics and Prognosis. St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series. Oxford (January)
  • Wilkinson, D. (2010), Neonatal Neuroethics and prognosis. Royal Children’s Hospital/Royal Women’s Hospital Grand Round, Melbourne; Monash Medical Centre Pediatric Grand Round. Melbourne (March)
  • Clarke, S. (2009), Should I Tolerate Your Religion? The Concept of God and the Cognitive Science of Religion: an International Conference. University of Birmingham (14-16 June)
  • Kahane, G. (2009), Counterintuitive Moral Judgment:  Cognitive Effort of Affective Deficit? International Society for Research on Emotion Conference. Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (August)
  • Kahane, G. (2009), The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment:  Empirical Findings and Possible Ethical Implications. Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (April 2009
  • Kahane, G. (2009), The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment (with Irene Tracey and Katja Wiech). James Martin 21st Century School Advanced Research Seminar. University of Oxford (February 2009
  • Sandberg, A. (2009), Cognitive Enhancement: Hope or Dope? Invited talk/panel discussion on cognition enhancement organized by The Triple Helix. McCrum Lecture Hall, Cambridge (19 January)
  • Sandberg, A. (2009), Clinical Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement. UK Clinical Ethics Network Conference. Oxford (30 June)
  • Sandberg, A. (2009), Cognitive Enhancement: Hope or Dope? Invited talk/panel discussion on cognition enhancement organized by The Triple Helix. McCrum Lecture Hall, Cambridge. (19 January)
  • Savulescu, J. (2009), Psychological investigation of philosophical issues:  work in the new oxford centre for neuroethics. Experimental Psychology Seminar. Experimental Psychology Department, Oxford (24 February)
  • Shea, N. (2009), Representations in the cognitive neuroscience of decision and action. James Martin Advanced Research Seminar Series. Oxford (March)
  • Clarke, S. (2008), Cognitive Bias and the Precautionary Principle: The Evidential Gap in Cass Sunstein's Laws of Fear:  Beyond the Precautionary Principle. Society for Risk Analysis:  Australian and New Zealand Chapter Annual Conference. ANU Canberra, Australia (October)
  • Kahane, G. (2008), Moral Theory and the Neuroscience of Morality. The Ethical and Philosophical Implications of Neuroscience. University of Bonn (October 2008)
  • Kahane, G. (2008), Evolutionary Debunking Arguments. The Ethical and Philosophical Implications of Neuroscience. University of Bonn (October 2008)
  • Savulescu, J. (2008), Debate on Cognitive Enhancement. First Annual Meeting of the Neuroethcis Society. AAAS Headquarters, Washington DC (13 November)
  • Clarke, S. (2007), Cognitive Bias and the Precautionary Principle. Department of Philosophy. Delft University, The Netherlands (12 March)
  • Clarke, S. and Roache, R. (2007), Cognitive Bias and Enhancement. James Martin 21st Century School Advanced Research Seminar. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (24 April)
  • Kahane, G. (2007), Cognitive Enhancement:  A Perspective from Value Theory. ENHANCE EU Project Workshop on Cognitive Enhancement. Stockholm University, Sweden (27-28 March)
  • Sandberg, A. (2007), Unfair to Allow or Unfair to Ban?  (The economic impact of cognitive enhancement). Enhancement and Genetics Conference. University of Jena, Germany (23 June)
  • Sandberg, A. (2007), Converging Cognitive Enhancement. Eudoxa. Uvvy Island, Second Life (virtual reality world) (23 May)
  • Sandberg, A. (2007), The Blue or the Pink Pill:  are enhancements gendered? ENHANCE Workshop on Cognitive Enhancement. Stockholm (27-28 April)
  • Sandberg, A. (2007), The Chemicals Between us. Neuroethics Symposium, Oxford Forum for Medical Humanities. St John's College, Oxford (11 May)
  • Savulescu, J. (2007), A moral duty to cognitive enhancement. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (10 May)
  • Savulescu, J. (2007), The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity. James Martin 21 School Advanced Research Seminar Series. Oxford (23 January
  • Kahane, G. (2006), Neuroscience and Ethics. James Martin 21st Century Advanced Research Seminar. Oxford University (2006)
  • Levy, N. (2006), The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and the Treatment of P.T.S.D. Oxford Neuroethics Workshop. Oxford (6 March)
  • Sandberg, A. (2006), Cognitive Divide or a Mind-Meld? Scenarios of Cognitive Enhancement. TransVision 06. University of Helsinki, Finland (17-19 August)
  • Sandberg, A. (2006), Genius as a Commodity:  Cognitive Enhancement Technology and Scenarios of its Social Effects. 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Sciences. Vancouver, B.C, Canada (1-5 November)
  • Sandberg, A. (2006), The social impact of cognitive enhancement. ENHANCE Conference. Beijing, China (5 August)
  • Sandberg, A. (2006), Mozart, Folic Acid, Choline and Genetic Modification:  Prenatal Cognitive Enhancement. 8th World Congress of Bioethics. Beijing, China (6 August)
  • Savulescu, J. (2006), Conclusion. ENHANCE Workshop on the Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement. University of Oxford (5 May)