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EventsOxford Lectures | Uehiro Lectures | Past events | Events by related societies Our researchers will be speaking at these forthcoming conferences and events. Follow the links for further information, including how to attend where conferences are open for booking. We have recently begun to podcast our special lectures. 2009 September Monday 16 - Wednesday 18 September Julian Savulescu will take part in a panel discussion 'Beyond the Financial Crisis - Systemic Shocks in the 21st Century' on September 17 and 18 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday September 17, 12.30 - 2.00 p.m. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday September 21, 4.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday September 22, 6.45 p.m.- 8.30 p.m. Julian Savulescu will be a panel member in this debate which asks what the world will be like in 50 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday September 23 Julian Savulescu will present 'The Limits of Autonomy in the Biomedical Context ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 4 October 2009, 4.45 If we are to avoid technological disaster, we must either alter our political institutions, severely restrain our technology or change our nature. Or face annihilation by our own design. Please see festival website for booking information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 October 2009, 12.30 - 2.00 p.m. Professor Tony Coady (CAPPE, Melbourne) will present the first in a series of two lectures on religion. All welcome, no booking required. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 October 2009, 5:30-7:00p.m. Professor Tony Coady (CAPPE, Melbourne) will present the first in a series of two lectures on religion as part of the regular St Cross Special Ethics Seminar. All welcome but please email in advance. All seminar participants are also invited to attend an informal pay as you go dinner after the seminar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20-21 October 2009, Advertisement | Draft Programme Biomedical science is increasingly yielding technologies that can be used to enhance the capacities of healthy people, as well as to treat disease. This two-day workshop will aim to advance the debate on the ethics of human enhancement byconsidering: THE PROGRAMME WILL INCLUDE SESSIONS ON: AND PRESENTATIONS BY, AMONG OTHERS: Eric Juengst (Case Western);
Paul Root Wolpe (Emory);
Hank Greely (Stanford);
John Harris (Manchester);
Tom Murray (The Hastings Center);
Julian Savulescu (Oxford);
Alexandre Mauron (Geneva) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 5 November 2009, 5:30-7:00p.m. All welcome but please email in advance. All seminar participants are also invited to attend an informal pay as you go dinner after the seminar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 3 December 2009, 7.00 p.m. This regular series of film screening and discussion is open to all, but primarily aimed at students. At these termly events, a thought-provoking film with a bioethics theme is shown, and after a brief introduction by Professor Savulescu, the floor is open for discussion. Wine and light refreshments are provided. All are welcome, no need to book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010 May The Mechanisms of Self-Control: Lessons from Addiction Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; can it nevertheless be properly seen as uncontrolled? What mechanisms are impaired in the addict’s behavior, and how can those impairments illuminate normal agency? This conference will bring together leading thinkers in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and philosophy to explore and advance our understanding of the mechanisms of self-control and the way in which they are weakened in addiction. Main Speakers: George Ainslie (Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center); Kent Berridge (Michigan University); Nomy Arpaly (Brown Univeristy). This is a preliminary announcement. Further details, including discussants, costs and venue will become available closer to the time of the conference. November 2010 Uehiro Lectures In these lectures, I will discuss criminal responsibility from a philosophical point of view (including some Japanese perspectives). I will scrutinize these issues by distinguishing three perspectives on criminal responsibility, namely, that of the “victim”, “offender”, and “punishment”. My aim in discussing the issue of victims is to raise and analyse a question of who constitutes a victim, particularly in the case of homicide. This question is examined by confronting a contemporary problem in the metaphysics of death, that is, whether dead people could suffer harm or not. Secondly, I will investigate how to estimate, as far as is scientifically possible, how responsible an offender is for their offence. This problem would be tackled by considering the notion of mens rea, taking into account the contemporary debates on free will and neuroethics. In considering this issue, I intend to adopt a probabilistic approach and propose concepts of “degrees of freedom and responsibility”. Thirdly, I will discuss the new and traditional problem of how to justify a system of punishment. In particular, my focus here is upon the issue of capital punishment and the concept of restorative justice (notwithstanding the fact that capital punishment has been abolished in the UK). My approach to this issue might be called “impossibilism” rather than retentionism or abolitionism. These three topics which I will consider roughly correspond to three basic modal concepts, namely, “actuality”, “possibility”, and “necessity (i.e. normativity)” respectively, so I have called these lectures “Modes of Responsibility”. Biography
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